Top 1200 Painful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

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

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

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

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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

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

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

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

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

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

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

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing 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.

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

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

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

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

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