Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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.

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.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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 memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

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

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.

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.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

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.

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

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

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

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

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

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

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

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.

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

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

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.

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

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

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

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 thing for me is to be misunderstood.

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

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