Top 1200 Painful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

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.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

My life has actually been full of challenges and painful moments - but I tried to bury such circumstances and work with complete dedication.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

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

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

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

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

I completely, 100 percent got bullied, and I'd still stick up for myself and try to be strong, but it was always so deeply painful.

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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

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.

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

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Sitting on the sidelines is so painful because it's very difficult for me to watch wrestling and not be a participant in the ring, since that's just where I belong.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

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

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

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.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy." "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

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

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.