Top 1200 Painful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I think that we'll see the concept of 'genre' continue to die a slow and painful death.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

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

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

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

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

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

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

I can train players and talk about football. But losing as a manager was so painful, I couldn't live with it.

I feel like my strong side is not being technically perfect at the piano, but at curating my own work. It's not painful for me. I don't feel sad when I have to leave things out, put them in the safe, and not have them in public. I realize many artists feel sad about this process, but for me that's the most exciting part: By losing the weaker moments you make the strong moments stronger.

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

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

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

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

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

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

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

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

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

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.

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

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

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

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

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

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

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

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

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

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