Painful Quotes

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.

I knew that the pain I felt now was here to stay. In many forms. Through many nights.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.

Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.

Suffer you will, one way or another

It’s not going to be easy, but it’s kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

To him, freedom was greater than love. She hated that. Because she had always thought that love was freedom.

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Man will never reach the higher wisdom, If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.

Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.

When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love.

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

Soon, the pain will be over!

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

I don't defend pain, But I do respect its ability to make us stronger and wiser after it stings.

I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it.

Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong.