Painful Quotes

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

If I were playing against Corey Perry, I’d probably want to hurt him in some painful and permanent way. And I think most of the rest of the league feels the same way.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.