Painful famous quotes

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
-- A. C. Benson

#Change #Needs #Painful

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Childhood #Amusement #Painful

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
-- Albert Ellis

#Worry #Anxiety #Painful

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sleep #Giving #Painful

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

#Normal #Painful #Rhythm

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
-- Ally Carter

#Mean #Painful

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Vulnerable #Painful #Intimate

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Painful #Rejected

That which is painful sharpens one's love.
-- Andrew Davidson

#Painful

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Identity #Painful

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
-- Anita Diament

#Beautiful #Necklaces #Painful

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Soul #Painful

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
-- Anna Kamienska

#Longing #Painful #Form

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
-- Anne Bishop

#Painful #Glorious

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
-- Annette Bening

#Loss #Painful #Deeper

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
-- Arthur Golden

#Kind #Painful #Melancholy

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!
-- Auguste Rodin

#Rejection #Helping #Painful

It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri

#Facts #Painful #Certain

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
-- Barry Diller

#Reality #World #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,
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Together #Painful #Politician

But without painful experiences, we dont grow
-- Betty Williams

#Painful #Without Pain #Grows

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.
-- Beyonce Knowles

#Gone #Painful

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.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Dream #Hope #Painful

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you
-- Bo Sanchez

#Mean #Painful #Plans

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

#Moon #Painful

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.
-- Cael Sanderson

#Lessons #Painful #Evolve

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
-- Carl Jung

#Real #Feelings #Painful

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
-- Carl Jung

#Responsibility #Men #Painful

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
-- Carly Simon

#Life #Dream #Painful

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
-- Casey Affleck

#Pigs #Cows #Painful

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Long #Heaven #Painful

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.
-- Charles Lamb

#Pockets #Painful #Deny

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
-- Chilon of Sparta

#Punishment #Gains #Painful

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.
-- Chris Martin

#Mean #Ghost Stories #Painful

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
-- Chris Martin

#People #Painful #Said

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

#Firsts #Painful

Obedience is less painful than regret.
-- Christine Caine

#Regret #Painful #Obedience

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.
-- Clarence H. Burns

#Failure #Knowing #Painful

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
-- Criss Jami

#Honesty #Confusion #Painful

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Healing #Forget #Painful

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
-- Damien Hirst

#Thinking #Important #Painful

We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.
-- Dane Cook

#Lying #Cry #Painful

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.
-- Dave Ramsey

#Pain #People #Painful

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
-- David Steindl-Rast

#Artist #Painful #Thousand

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
-- Derek Jacobi

#Age #Painful #Dangerous

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.
-- Devon Werkheiser

#Painful #Wasabi #Food Love

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

#Path #Painful #Process

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
-- Donna Leon

#Fiction #Violence #Painful

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Past #Mind #Painful

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

#Emotional #Luxury #Painful

Growth is often a painful process.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Growth #Painful #Process

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#People #Painful #Feels

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Writing #Painful #Ends

It's painful to consider anything but writing.
-- Emma Donoghue

#Writing #Painful

...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.
-- Eoin Colfer

#Tourists #Tails #Painful

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
-- Eric Rohmer

#Thinking #Painful #Monopolizing

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#World #Ridiculous #Painful

The life of men is painful.
-- Euripides

#Men #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
-- Fauja Singh

#Running #Marathon #Painful

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Painful #Intensity

My joy is as painful as my pain.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Pain #Joy #Painful

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Pain #Painful #Joyful

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.
-- Fred Durst

#Past #Forever #Painful

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Doe #Painful #Plunder

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.
-- Gary Zukav

#Painful #Awareness #States

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

#Want #Painful #Situation

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
-- Gavin DeGraw

#Sound #Kind #Painful

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.
-- Gayle Forman

#Powerful #Feelings #Painful

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

#Serious #Painful #Stranger

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.
-- Georges Courteline

#Painful #Still In Love #Difficult

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.
-- Gerda Weissmann Klein

#Survival #Privilege #Painful

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.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Bitterness #Kind #Painful

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
-- Grantly Dick-Read

#Pregnancy #Painful #Natural

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

#Emotional #Attachment #Painful

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
-- Harry Herbert Miller

#Maturity #Painful #Enough

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
-- Helen Fielding

#Serious #Comedy #Painful

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

#Painful #Moments #Joyful

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Discovery #Painful #Theological

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

#Painful #Persons #Consequence

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
-- Henry Rollins

#Want #Next #Painful

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

#Self #Painful #Natural

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.
-- Ian Somerhalder

#Painful #Overrated #Pointless

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

#Artist #Painful #Form

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.
-- J.R. Ward

#Falling In Love #Ruins #Painful

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

#Mirrors #Looks #Painful

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
-- Jacob Lew

#Problem #Painful #Solutions

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
-- James Franco

#Impossible #Sometimes #Painful

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship
-- Jane Austen

#Together #Sometimes #Painful

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.
-- Jane Green

#Long #Painful

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
-- Janet Yellen

#Growth #Sides #Painful

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
-- Jeb Bush

#Love Is #People #Painful

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
-- Jennifer Beals

#People #Not Good Enough #Painful

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
-- Jerry Flint

#Sports #Competition #Painful

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.
-- Jim Carrey

#Broken #World #Painful

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

#Blessed #Alive #Painful

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
-- John Boyne

#Thinking #Painful

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

#Life Is Too Short #Waste #Painful

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Painful #Active

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Greatness #Painful #Neighbor

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
-- Joseph Estrada

#Pills #Painful #Globalization