Painful Beautiful Quotes

#1. Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful ...

Nicola Barker

#2. Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.

Alana Stewart

#3. The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Anita Diamant

#4. Life asked Death 'why do people love me, but hate you?'. Death responded 'because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth'.

Unknown

#5. Life is beautiful and this earth is heaven, but your mind is capable enough to create hell for you, on this very earth, if you go on living your life, without understanding.

Roshan Sharma

#6. What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up.

Elizabeth Lesser

#7. Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the past.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#9. That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock

Alan Dean Foster

#10. I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations ... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Tyne Daly

#11. Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

Kristin Kreuk

#12. Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and ugly, blissful and painful. And remember to dance between the worlds, for that is your heritage as a child of the infinite Oneness.

Leonide Martin

#13. This Thursday night felt like adolescence: exquisitely painful and sharply beautiful.

Liane Moriarty

#14. The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Debra Moffitt

#15. Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.

Katie J. Davis

#16. Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#17. I can't help but find it both painful and beautiful that Warner lost a mother and gained two brothers in the same week.

Tahereh Mafi

#18. I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.

Dean Wareham

#19. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

Dan Pearce

#20. I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

Aimee Bender

#21. 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.

Uma Thurman

#22. Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.

Anonymous

#23. A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical.

Donald Miller

#24. Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

Leslye Headland

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#32. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Jackson Pearce

#33. It's the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

Taylor Swift

#34. The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Clint Eastwood

#35. I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

Jayson Blair

#36. It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

Scott Weiland

#37. Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there's never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

J.C. Reed

#38. She knew all about love - that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.

Mary Hart Perry

#39. A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Jodi Picoult

#40. It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Dodie Smith

#41. If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.

Jeff Zentner

#42. Not all scars are visible. Regardless, they are usually painful when you first get them. But with time they might fade or they can remain and become a beautiful reminder ... that you survived.

Jose N. Harris

#43. Life is short, and brutal, and painful, and it takes loved ones away from us as quickly as it brings them into our lives, but it's also beautiful.

Claire Contreras

#44. 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.

Janine Di Giovanni

#45. Often the most painful rains, grows the most beautiful flowers

Alok Jagawat