Painful Quotes

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?