Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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.

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 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 get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

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

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful.

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate. Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Anna loves Ted, but she does not want him in a way that causes her to suffer; she does not want him desperately, despite herself. And it turns out that is how Ted has always wanted to be wanted: the way he has always wanted women. The way Anna wanted Marco, and he wanted Anna, and Rachel (or so it seems, in retrospect) wanted him. In the absence of this painful wanting, Ted has trouble getting hard.

As I let it out, layer by layer, Dr. Driscoll helped with the bumps and valleys. He knew just how much to draw out of me and how much I could handle. He is such an expert in his profession. He told me that the guilt I was feeling was not guilt, but regret. Guilt is a good thing. It is a mechanism by which we shouldn't make the same mistake twice. If you do something questionable, then the next chance you get to do it, guilt should stop you. I had no guilt. I had regrets, many regrets, but no guilt. It took some convincing, but he prevailed. There was always a nagging in my head, that if only I had had the guts to kill Neary myself, it would have stopped him from harming others, but that was not to be as a small boy. It does hurt that, maybe, just maybe, if I had carried out one of my many plans to kill him and myself then I could have saved victims younger than I. As victims come forward from almost all the churches where he served—and some are twenty—five plus years my junior—I feel that they would have been spared, if only I hadn't chickened out as a boy. Therein lies the answer; I was a little boy, a ten—year—old boy. Other victims of Neary were as young as six.

As I sit and reflect in the gloomy shades of the setting sun, a voice inside my head keeps reminding me - 'The past is a morbid place to be'.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

Being encourages in pain

Being deemed a fool, even if it is done by a fool, does not hurt, unless you are a fool.

Behind each and every difficult mountain is an easy valley. Keep climbing; endure a little more. Your pain will bring you gain!

Be willing to pass through a short term pain so that you can come out with a long term gain. Don't fear the horrible waves of the waters; just dare to cross and you get there!

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?