Painful Quotes

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

Life is painful to be meaningful.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

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

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

People die because they find living too painful.

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

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.

Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose the joke, which is that this is painful and hard.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

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

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

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

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.