Painful Quotes

I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

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

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

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

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than crossing Stryker. (Devyn)

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)

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.

A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.