Painful Quotes
One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.
The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.
The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
