Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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

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

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.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

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

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away

The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

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

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

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

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

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

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

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.

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.