Top 1200 Painful Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.

What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.