Painful But Quotes

#1. Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Seth Adam Smith

#2. To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt - fatal.

Cassandra Clare

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The practice of thrift is not outdated.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

#6. Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

Dov Davidoff

#7. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.

Debasish Mridha

#8. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.

Serena Chase

#9. A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

Stephen Nathan

#10. Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

Octavia Butler

#12. Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

Joel Burns

#13. Falling apart in a 5K is painful, but it's just pain. Falling apart in a marathon, I believe you lose a year of your life. You complete the marathon feeling utterly defeated, knowing that it got the best of you, and you go home and ask your mom if she still loves you.

Jacob Frey

#14. I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Marc Jacobs

#15. The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

Joseph Estrada

#16. Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.

Morgan Rhodes

#17. Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Joe Abercrombie

#18. No matter; God wants Man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preserve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.

Alexandre Dumas

#19. So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

Corey Taylor

#20. It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Bill Cosby

#21. The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Ed Murray

#22. Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.

Rajneesh

#23. Worrying was painful ... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

Laura Moriarty

#24. It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Mary Hart Perry

#26. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

#27. I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

Neil Patrick Harris

#28. 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.

Bertrand Russell

#29. The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

Adrienne Rich

#30. SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.

Joseph Finder

#31. How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

Cameron Dokey

#32. To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

Sarah Swainson

#33. Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

Piet Hein

#34. Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Fred Rogers

#35. Failure is painful but false success is tragic

Mohammed Sekouty

#36. Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

Wendy Swore

#37. I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

Neil Diamond

#38. I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

Dick Van Patten

#39. The start shall indeed be challenging and painful but the end has to be exceedingly fulfilling and fruitful.

Arkaprava De

#40. A terrorist attack is like a wasp sting. It may be very painful, but it does not kill the host. It only makes the host more determined to find the nest and destroy it.

Karlyle Tomms

#41. Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Ori Gersht

#42. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,

J.R.D. Tata

#43. I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Jenni Rivera

#44. You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Dwayne Johnson

#45. I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion - when it was physically painful, but I just couldn't stop.

Alton Tobey

#46. I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Mary J. Blige

#47. I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

Annette Bening

#48. It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.

Shakira

#49. Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Chilon Of Sparta

#50. Whoever wishes may accompany me: the road is long, it's painful but it's lived.

Clarice Lispector

#51. God loves you. His chastisements can be painful, but God never turns His back on us. He will discipline us, but He will not forsake us. He will always seek to draw us back to a place where He can bless us once more.

Beth Moore

#52. Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Ross Perot

#53. Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.

Marat Safin

#54. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

H.L. Mencken

#55. Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,
compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#56. I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Jon Stewart

#57. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.

Julie Johnson

#58. Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Patti Smith

#59. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening - it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).

Rick Warren

#60. However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

John Ruskin

#61. We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert Anthony

#62. It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#63. I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we were living and fighting for and why we needed to suffer and sacrifice.
Those were the days when all of us were young, very pure and very sincere.

Bao Ninh

#64. I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick.

Mindy Kaling

#65. love can be painful. But real love? It beats any obstacle along the way. And it saves people who are beyond saving. People who the world has given up on. It can be redemption." I

Lola StVil

#66. When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered ... that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor ... e painful and frustrating.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#67. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

#68. Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful - but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

Jim Butcher

#69. Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

Joe Trippi

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

Iris Apfel

#71. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

Theodore Kaczynski

#72. We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#73. When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#74. Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

Nicola Sturgeon

#75. It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

Fauja Singh

#76. Change is painful, moving on is painful but nothing is more painful then being were you dont belong

Na

#77. Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

Elizabeth Taylor

#78. Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#79. Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

Sri Chinmoy

#80. God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.

Janette Oke

#81. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#82. It was hope that was the problem. Hoping feelings wouldn't be hurt, hoping love would blossom, that was painful. But committing yourself to misery, that was just a dead feeling. It was pulling the Band-Aid and embracing the pain.

Stephen Emond

#83. It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

Frank Langella

#84. Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

Alec Douglas-Home

#85. This is among the oldest, deepest, most primal truths: the facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not.

Augusten Burroughs

#86. Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

Cath Crowley

#87. Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

Jill Savage

#88. You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.

Lukas Moodysson

#89. After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

Britta Phillips

#90. Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

James Dyson

#91. In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.

Matt Mullenweg

#92. Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Charlotte Pearson

#93. Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

Banana Yoshimoto

#94. Conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

Rollo May

#95. Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

Haruki Murakami

#96. Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.

Juliette Fay

#97. Looking at the past can be painful, but you can either run from it, numb it, or learn frome it.

Mia Sheridan

#98. Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities ... And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

Mary Pipher

#99. Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

Ho Chi Minh

#100. Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Sarah McLachlan