Painful Quotes

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Saving was slow and painful.

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

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.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

That's painful always to lose.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

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.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.