Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 physical scars that are the most painful.

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 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.

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

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.

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

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

Life is painful to be meaningful.

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

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

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

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

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