Painful Quotes

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

William Hazlitt
Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

Joel David Moore
- Life
- Painful

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

Jon Bon Jovi
- Fall
- Pain
- Knees
You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

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

Oscar Wilde
- Ideas
- Waiting
- Painful
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

William Styron
I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

Sara Blakely
- Giving
- Sometimes
- Karma
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.

Nicholas Stoller
- Real
- Interesting
- Moments