Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Life is painful to be meaningful.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

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

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

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

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

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

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

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

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 book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

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

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.

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.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

[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.

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)

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.

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