Top 1200 Painful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

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

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

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

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.