Painful Quotes
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But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope. The kind of hope that abandons you in your worst moments and is suddenly there again, weeks later, trailing you like the stubborn, slinking dog who will not take no for an answer. The kind of greedy hope that tricks you into believing that at least some of the things taken from you might be restored, that after everything, you might find your way back to something like happiness.
Brady Udall
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You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.
Karen Katafiasz
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.
Hippocrates
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After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.
Britta Phillips
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It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
Anne Bronte
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She knew that one extraordinary thing was bound to make the ordinariness of her life all the more painful.
Alma Katsu
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
Anita Diamant
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You see, it was not only Hiccup who was growing up, it was the entire world around him - and when whole worlds grow up, that can be painful and difficult. Was it all worth the Archipelago in flames? I do not know, you decide.
Cressida Cowell
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
Claude Lelouch
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
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I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.
Haruki Murakami
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Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!
Kiersten White