Top 100 It's So Painful Quotes
#1. God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
Tom Petty
#2. The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.
Greg Behrendt
#3. If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Boris Pasternak
#4. My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
Roger Daltrey
#5. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
Scott Simon
#7. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Morris Graves
#9. To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful?
Michelle Tea
#10. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#11. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.
Graham O'Connell
#12. No matter how painful it might be ... I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!
CLAMP
#13. Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.
Thomas Mann
#14. I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
Ray Dalio
#15. Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
John Scalzi
#16. The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.
Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini
#17. I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
Robinson Jeffers
#19. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
Michael Medved
#20. A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you.
Sara Levine
#21. If one operates on the principle that everything can be a learning experience, then of course aging needn't be so painful."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
#23. You know when everyone tells you it's painful? You should really believe them." - Valkyrie
"Oh, joy," he muttered. "I can't wait for mine. - Fletcher, about the Surge
Derek Landy
#24. If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?
Katha Pollitt
#25. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
Sakyong Mipham
#26. At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
Huston Smith
#27. Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.
Naval Ravikant
#28. It is not that we do not believe the Lord wants the best for us. It is that we wonder how painful the best will be.
C.S. Lewis
#29. For anyone who has ever had a moment of weakness. It won't be painful forever, so don't let it get the best of you.
J.A. Redmerski
#30. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
#31. At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important
Nicholas Sparks
#32. The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
Robyn Carr
#33. God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution - to just not relax - was kind of sucking.
Lilith Saintcrow
#34. Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#35. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde
#36. In my bedroom, I squeezed shut my eyes, because it was too hard, that memory. Too hard, too painful, too much like losing a slice of myself, which, in fact, I had.
Lauren Myracle
#37. But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.
Seth Adam Smith
#39. If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.
Henry Rollins
#40. Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.
Steven E. Landsburg
#41. Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment... Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be.
G. Michael Maddock
#43. It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
Dustin Hoffman
#44. My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father
very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
William P. Young
#45. The moral and spiritual individuality comes here to live a painful adventure, full of frustrations, a dramatic experience of living in foreign lands, dominated by a constant, painful feeling of absence from its true home; a feeling of nostalgia, thirst and lack of fulfilment.
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#46. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Dan Simmons
#47. What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#49. Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.
Corneille Ewango
#50. To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt - fatal.
Cassandra Clare
#51. What's painful is that what you had together, all your inside jokes and favorite restaurants and that movie you both loved but everyone else hated - that's gone, and there's no replacement for it, you never replicate it, never get to have it ever again ...
Kim Culbertson
#52. He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
Rick Riordan
#53. Will," she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. "Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.
Cassandra Clare
#54. Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.
C.S. Lewis
#55. Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life's experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.
Debbie Ford
#56. Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
John Darnielle
#57. 28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son 29and called his name Noah, saying, Out of the ground w that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief [4] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.
Anonymous
#58. I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. Separation is painful, but so is its opposite. And if being together brings joy, then it is only proper that separation should do the same in its own way.
Yukio Mishima
#60. She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
Anne Bishop
#62. The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.
Jahangir
#64. I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#65. No matter what painful things happens, even when it looks like you'll lose... when no one else in the world believes in you... when you don't even believe in yourself... I will believe in you!
Rem
#66. I'm NOT used to it! But ... I'm not as scared as I was before. Getting rejected is painful, but there are also people who accept me. We aren't alone, you know. And that's why we have nothing to be afraid of.
Sakura Tsukuba
#67. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
Haruki Murakami
#68. Meaningful change is always painful. It's always resisted. And it's always awkward.
Amy Daws
#69. I'll get you back for this, bitch," the male cupping his balls managed to grit out.
She gave him a patronising smile. "I know this must be painful for your ego. Try not to think of it as being defeated. Just think of it as being beat up by a girl.
Suzanne Wright
#70. Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
#71. Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.
Gene L. Coon
#72. If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
Tom Petty
#73. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
Marvin J. Ashton
#74. At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#75. The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Carl Jung
#76. For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Marcel Proust
#77. You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.
Sylvia Day
#78. I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae ... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
Anais Nin
#79. But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#80. We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
Saint Basil
#81. Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.
Hannah Wright
#82. The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.
Bella Forrest
#83. Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.
Max Lucado
#84. Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness
Munia Khan
#85. I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.
Virginia Wade
#86. I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.
Regis Philbin
#87. Camus said 'Love Lasts or Love Burns'. I want a Lasting Burn-just nothing requiring a series of painful treatments by a rubber-gloved Doctor
Josh Stern
#88. You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
James Tiptree Jr.
#89. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.
Richard Castle
#90. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
#91. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Patrick Ness
#92. Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#93. His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.
Sylvia Day
#94. Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.
Naguib Mahfouz
#95. Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
Plutarch
#96. Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
Cybill Shepherd
#97. Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.
Eugene Gendlin
#98. I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.
Jill Scott
#99. We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.
Sarah Domet
#100. Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.
Dov Davidoff
