Painful Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

Growth is often a painful process.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Divorce is never easy, but it’s even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

Saving was slow and painful.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.