Top 1200 Painful Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.

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.

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

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.

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

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

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.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

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 fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

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.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

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

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

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

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

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

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

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

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

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.

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

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

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

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

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

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

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

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

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

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.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

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.

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

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

I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

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.