Top 1200 Painful Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.

Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

It's painful to see that after Independence, India hasn't won a single Olympic medal in athletics.

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.