Top 1200 Painful Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

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

It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Sometimes being trapped with my thoughts can be more painful than any injury I've suffered in the ring.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

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.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of Super Bowl. We have that every day: lunch and dinner. We play that game. Then you come home and you really just want to drink a beer. But then you discipline yourself and you have to do this thing, this journal. It was painful but I'm so happy I did it. I have newfound respect for people that write.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything." He stroked a hand down her back. "Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

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

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.