Top 127 Excruciating Quotes & Sayings

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being in the solitary prison of my office. A lot of brain-wracking. It just felt like it was so much hard work, and I would send it away. I felt as though I was doing all of this heavy lifting, this weightlifting, every day, all day. It was excruciating. And I stayed skinny, and someone else got all the muscles. I was eating all my vegetables, but then I wouldn't get dessert. To me, directing is the dessert.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.

Excruciating agony makes me cranky.

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.

Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of excruciating pain to push out from between my legs ~Charley Davidson

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

I lead a very regimented life. I take excruciating care of myself: I take a lot of vitamins, get enough sleep, don't drink apart from a glass of wine occasionally.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

I sacrificed a lot. I wasn't able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.