Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

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 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'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.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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 not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.