Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

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.

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

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 lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

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.

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.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

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

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.