Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

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

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

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

Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

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

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

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!

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

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

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

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

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

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

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

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

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.

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

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

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

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.

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

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.