Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

Life is painful to be meaningful.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

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.

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

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

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

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

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

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.