Top 1200 Painful Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

I'm upset that 'Dastaan' is ending. After working so hard, to see it end abruptly is painful.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

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

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

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

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

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

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.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

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

As much of a privilege as it is to pass, it's painful. You have to compartmentalize your life. That's awkward. Dating can be horrible.

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

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

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

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

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 have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

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

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

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

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

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

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

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

I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it is confined to the genitals. Just a small ripple in the genitals-and finished. It is not like possession when the whole body moves into a whirlpool and you are lost in the abyss. For a few moments time stops and the mind does not function. For a few moments you do not know who you are. Then it is a total orgasm.