Painful Quotes

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

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.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

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

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

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

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

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.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

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

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

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

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

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.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

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

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

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

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.