Top 1200 Painful Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.

What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say "no," which is something girls - we're not always good at saying "no." We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, "Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain." It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do, and what kind of work I wanted to do.

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.

I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things that just kinda make you raise your eyebrows. And those are often the moments that are the seeds of inspiration. Sometimes they're in a great conversation with friends, sometimes they're things you see live, something you read, a movie trailer you watch... I think inspiration is kind of laid out there. One thing we have to practice is recognizing when it happens, and recording that moment so we can come back to it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

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

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

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

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

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

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

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

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.