Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

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

Life is painful to be meaningful.

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

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

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.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

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.

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

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

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.

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 other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

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

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

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.

[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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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