Painful Quotes
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Divorce is probably as painful as death.
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I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and professionally. But when you see that you could be the person who impacts the conversation in a meaningful way - or that you could inspire a few people to feel better about themselves, to speak up, to inspire others, to create this broader wave of change - I don't regret that at all.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.
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As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
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Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
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Saving was slow and painful.
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
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She knew that one extraordinary thing was bound to make the ordinariness of her life all the more painful.
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
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I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.
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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
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Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
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You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
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The key is to accept what is and not allow yourself to be jerked between likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions. Accept what is, right now, whether it’s comfortable or painful.
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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.
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That which is painful sharpens one's love.
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I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.
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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."
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Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.
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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
