Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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'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.

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 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 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.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

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

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

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.

It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.

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

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

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

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

It was very hard to revisit a part of my life in the In the Land of Blood and Honey movie, which I thought had been buried deep down in my soul. To go back to where we were, twenty years ago, it was painful. I knew it would open up old wounds.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

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