Most Painful Sayings

#1. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. He was drawn to painful thoughts, fear, darkness. And Reyna's darkest, most painful memory was San Juan. Her biggest fear? Coming back here. - Author: Rick Riordan

#3. 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 - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. 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. - Author: Joshua Oppenheimer

#5. 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. - Author: Tiffanie DeBartolo

#6. To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne. - Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept at finding the silver lining, even in the most challenging circumstances. - Author: Pooja Ruprell

#8. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life. - Author: Geoffrey Vickers

#9. 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. - Author: Todd Burpo

#10. Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. - Author: George Eliot

#11. Memories have to be our most painful blessing. - Author: Kanye West

#12. Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation. - Author: William Styron

#13. In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness. - Author: Jack Kornfield

#14. Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself. - Author: Eve Ensler

#15. 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. - Author: Elif Shafak

#16. 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. - Author: Michael Bloomberg

#17. Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. - Author: John C. Maxwell

#18. Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#19. Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. - Author: Paul Krugman

#20. 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. - Author: Anonymous

#21. One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did - Author: Bertrand Russell

#22. Betrayal is one of the most emotionally painful experiences a person can have, with its potent cocktail of fear, grief and anger; this triggers our primitive fight/flight response," says novelist and psychologist Voula Grand - Author: Voula Grand

#23. 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 - Author: Susan Polis Schutz

#24. Most people just say 'sorry'. But handing over your ex for painful handling was so much better. - Author: Suzanne Wright

#25. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. - Author: Criss Jami

#26. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#27. Often the most painful rains, grows the most beautiful flowers - Author: Alok Jagawat

#28. The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. - Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#29. 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. - Author: Dennis Prager

#30. Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. - Author: Orson Scott Card

#31. 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. - Author: Edward Allen Bernero

#32. There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people. - Author: Janine Di Giovanni

#33. The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things. - Author: David Brenner

#34. Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance ... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all. - Author: Guy Finley

#35. 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. - Author: Laura Frantz

#36. 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. - Author: Isabella Bird

#37. Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change. - Author: Dave Ramsey

#38. Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful. - Author: Valynne E. Maetani

#39. Heartbreak is the most painful kind of torture, and the mind is its greatest ally." - - Author: Ellie Wade

#40. Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves. - Author: Gary Zukav

#41. Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world. - Author: Arthur Smith

#42. The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret - Author: Leo Buscaglia

#43. If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous. - Author: Nev Schulman

#44. Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. - Author: Chris Martin

#45. But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. - Author: Donna Shalala

#46. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying Why? - Author: Dallas Willard

#47. Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#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. - Author: Rae Carson

#49. Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied. - Author: Fanny Burney

#50. 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. - Author: Renita J. Weems

#51. 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. - Author: Rae Carson

#52. The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. - Author: Carmen Laforet

#53. bruises that cannot be seen are the most painful of all - Author: Gina Holmes

#54. In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful. - Author: Omar Suleiman

#55. 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. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#56. 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. - Author: Nassau William Senior

#57. The artist who goes into himself most deeply -- and it is a painful journey -- is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#58. For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support. - Author: Alana Stewart

#59. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life. - Author: Larry Ellison

#60. 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. - Author: Junot Diaz

#61. 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. - Author: John Wycliffe

#62. Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. - Author: Nick Nolte

#63. 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. - Author: John Dos Passos

#64. What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience. - Author: Rajneesh

#65. The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - Author: James Newman

#66. 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. - Author: Chelsey Philpot

#67. When you move forward in life or move on with life..
Moving on from people is the most difficult and painful..
But probably the most 'necessary'..
One may have to leave behind many who's, what's, when's, where's and why's..
Imperative to maintaining forward momentum in life.. - Author: Abha Maryada Banerjee

#68. 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. - Author: Sarah Domet

#69. 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. - Author: Eugene Gendlin

#70. The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation. - Author: Bella Forrest

#71. Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight. - Author: Hannah Wright

#72. 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. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#73. The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage. - Author: Jahangir

#74. She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life - Author: Anne Bishop

#75. 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. - Author: Debbie Ford

#76. It's the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love - Author: Taylor Swift

#77. On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established. - Author: Broda Otto Barnes

#78. Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful. - Author: Janet Yellen

#79. 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. - Author: V.C. Andrews

#80. 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. - Author: Ann Brashares

#81. 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. - Author: George Clooney

#82. most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical manifestations of our emotional, psychological, and spiritual holdings and contractions. - Author: Jack Kornfield

#83. The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. - Author: Leonard Woolf

#84. Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. - Author: Rick Riordan

#85. A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies. - Author: Aristotle.

#86. Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#87. Software engineering has this in common with having children: the labor before the birth is painful and difficult, but the labor after the birth is where you actually spend most of your effort. Yet - Author: Betsy Beyer

#88. 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. - Author: Elizabeth George

#89. Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy. - Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

#90. In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War. - Author: Bill Bryson

#91. The most recent was my match against Daniel Bryan at Fastlane. He kicked my scar from my recent hernia surgery. That was painful. I needed to take a step back from training that next day! - Author: Roman Reigns

#92. 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. - Author: Lance Armstrong

#93. Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed. - Author: Deane Juhan

#94. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#95. The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce. - Author: Donna McKechnie

#96. Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness! - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#97. Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation. - Author: Bella Forrest

#98. We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. - Author: Dag Hammarskjold

#99. 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. - Author: Vladimir Nabokov

#100. Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove. - Author: Eric Schlosser