Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so many times that it was just painful for him. He constantly had to go to Rome to explain his views.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.

He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

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

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

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.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

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

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.