Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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.

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

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

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

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 nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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 all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.