Top 100 Most Painful Sayings
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
Anne Bishop
#4. 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
#5. The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.
Bella Forrest
#6. 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
#7. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.
Chelsey Philpot
#8. The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
James Newman
#9. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
Rae Carson
#10. Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos
#11. Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
Nick Nolte
#12. Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.
John Wycliffe
#13. Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.
Junot Diaz
#14. To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.
Nassau William Senior
#15. Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
Leigh Bardugo
#16. In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.
Omar Suleiman
#17. bruises that cannot be seen are the most painful of all
Gina Holmes
#18. The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.
Carmen Laforet
#19. Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.
Eric Schlosser
#20. In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes [ ... ], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion [ ... ] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug.
Vladimir Nabokov
#21. We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
Dag Hammarskjold
#22. Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation.
Bella Forrest
#23. The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
Donna McKechnie
#24. In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
Lance Armstrong
#25. When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.
Elizabeth George
#26. Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.
Frederick Lenz
#27. I've been left for someone ... all those things ... It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.
George Clooney
#28. At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
Ann Brashares
#29. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.
V.C. Andrews
#30. Heartbreak is the most painful kind of torture, and the mind is its greatest ally." -
Ellie Wade
#31. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Criss Jami
#32. The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
it never fades away
Susan Polis Schutz
#33. One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did
Bertrand Russell
#34. From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.
Anonymous
#35. Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.
Michael Bloomberg
#37. I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.
Elif Shafak
#38. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness.
Jack Kornfield
#40. Memories have to be our most painful blessing.
Kanye West
#41. Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
#42. Yeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven. ... From that moment on, the wound from one of the most painful episodes in our lives, losing a child we had wanted very much, began to heal.
Todd Burpo
#43. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life.
Geoffrey Vickers
#44. Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#45. We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#46. He was drawn to painful thoughts, fear, darkness. And Reyna's darkest, most painful memory was San Juan. Her biggest fear? Coming back here.
Rick Riordan
#47. Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.
Renita J. Weems
#48. Words. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.
Rae Carson
#49. Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Gloria Steinem
#50. The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
Leo Buscaglia
#51. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.
Valynne E. Maetani
#53. One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
Isabella Bird
#54. One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.
Laura Frantz
#55. One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staff and his crew, I think that really hurt a lot of show runners, because it was never a choice between our writers and our crew.
Edward Allen Bernero
#56. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.
Dennis Prager
#57. The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#58. Often the most painful rains, grows the most beautiful flowers
Alok Jagawat
#59. Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
Oscar Wilde
#61. In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.
Thalia
#62. Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realize that your parent is complicated and fallible and human.
Vikki Wakefield
#63. Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.
Nicholas Sparks
#64. In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.
Christine Benvenuto
#65. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads ... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
Harlan Ellison
#66. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.
Frank Sinatra
#67. Childbirth has always been a dangerous undertaking, but at least I've managed to eliminate the most painful part of the process.
What's that? Sex?
Love.
Brian K. Vaughan
#68. True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.
John Carter Cash
#69. 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.
Carl Jung
#70. The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.
Bethany McLean
#71. Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
Jessica Lange
#72. Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
Carly Simon
#73. As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
June Jordan
#74. Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton
#75. Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?
Randy Alcorn
#76. Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you have to write them down, hoping that they'll matter to someone else other than yourself.
Cristian Mihai
#77. It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
Newt Gingrich
#78. War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
Leo Tolstoy
#79. My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.
Diora Baird
#80. The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. The most painful experience is to endure mental abuse and not being able to do anything about it.
Angela Brown
#82. The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.
Peter Kay
#83. Rage washes through me like a fucking wave crashing against the shore. I want to kill Caleb. Beat him to death in the most painful ways.
Jessica Sorensen
#84. Even when you're angry, love tugs at your soul in the most painful way. It makes you care- makes you feel- when that's the last thing you want.
Calia Read
#85. And standing there ... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#86. The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.
Amy Tintera
#87. That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?
Alexander McCall Smith
#88. Unrequited love is most painful. If you express you feeling it may hurt her/him but if don't express it will hurt you like hell.
Raj Singh
#89. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.
Jill Ker Conway
#90. I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#91. And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference.
Lourd De Veyra
#92. Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#93. The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.
Katrina Kaif
#94. A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you.
Anonymous
#95. The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
Soren Kierkegaard
#96. Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful ...
Jose N. Harris
#97. The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Gary Zukav
#98. Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds ...
Louise Hay
#99. I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.
Jamie Babbit
#100. The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.
Cecelia Ahern
