Best 368 quotes in «painful quotes» category

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)

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?

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 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.