Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

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

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

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

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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