Quotes About Painful

#1. The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

Lily Tomlin

#2. He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don't think I will, M. Then I'll make you. Really? How?I'm not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won't leave any evidence.

Tessa Dare

#3. In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

#4. There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Jack Kornfield

#5. Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.

Whitney Houston

#6. Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

William Hazlitt

#7. I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

Linda Sunshine

#8. I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

Robert Morgan

#9. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

Dalai Lama

#10. I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Kenneth Clarke

#11. Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

Sylvia Nasar

#12. Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

Jamie Magee

#13. Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#14. How can I tell McDermott that this is a very disjointed time of my life and that I notice the walls have been painted a bright, almost painful white and under the glare of the fluorescent lights they seem to pulse and glow.

Bret Easton Ellis

#15. The most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

Viktor E. Frankl

#16. accept that you deserve more
than painful love
life is moving
the healthiest thing
for your heart is
to move with it

Rupi Kaur

#17. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Phyllis Schlafly

#18. Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.

M. Scott Peck

#19. The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

Libba Bray

#20. Experience was the most painful of teachers.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. There is a pain that means things are coming apart. But then, sometimes there is a pain that means that things might be able to come back together. Surgery can be as painful as stabbing, but it leads to healing. I knew I was beginning to heal.

John Ortberg

#22. Your ability to navigate & tolerate change & its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness & general well-being

Amy Poehler

#23. Sounds painful, but the lady on the bottle is smiling

Wendy Mass

#24. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

#25. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#26. He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now ... in the long run, ending it here, before she learned the truth about him, was the only thing he could do.

Elisabeth Naughton

#27. Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

Penney Peirce

#28. The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.

Jim Carrey

#29. People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

George Orwell

#30. It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Maya Forbes

#31. 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

#32. As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

Debbie Ford

#33. For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

Michael Lind

#34. 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

#35. You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Corazon Aquino

#36. When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Dmitry Medvedev

#37. When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

William Hazlitt

#38. My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Geoffrey Canada

#39. Is this what love is? This painful, unhinged thing? This polarizing madness that swings from joyous to suffering in the blink of an eye? And if so, why do we let it consume us the way it does? Why do we so willingly surrender to its violent currents and unpredictable winds?

Chelsea Fine

#40. We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful.

Nicki Salcedo

#41. You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.

Erwin McManus

#42. Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Bergson

#43. Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessary, but it's painful for the animal, and it's completely unnecessary.

Rory Freedman

#44. Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes.

Santosh Kalwar

#45. Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Maya Angelou

#46. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

#47. he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.

Ayn Rand

#48. When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

Frederick Lenz

#49. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Mary Shelley

#50. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

Joe Abercrombie

#51. One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

Patrick DeWitt

#52. It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

Julie Kagawa

#53. A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

Mario Bunge

#54. Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every situation - even the most painful - in silence, in the hope that out of it he would dredge back up some self-respect.

Paul Scott

#55. Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

Li Keqiang

#56. If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

Maya Angelou

#57. She poured out a measure but Temple declined. 'Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.'
'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

Joe Abercrombie

#58. I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.

Rebecca De Mornay

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

Anonymous

#60. I gave in continuously, with painful pleasure, to waves of unhappiness.

Elena Ferrante

#61. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#62. Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don't prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.

Kristin Neff

#63. Growth is a painful process.

Wilma Mankiller

#64. To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

Paulo Coelho

#65. 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

#66. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

Lynne Truss

#67. If you ever cry alone again...or even if the day comes where you just find living to be painful...then I promise I'll save you again and again.

Takano Ichigo

#68. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

John Piper

#69. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

George R R Martin

#70. Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

LaToya Jackson

#71. But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide

Tracy Chevalier

#72. /Are you sane, Mother?/
Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. /Is any immortal every truly sane?/

Nalini Singh

#73. Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Thomas Hardy

#74. Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Euripides

#75. He was lashing himself again into an impotent rage, painful to a son to witness

Elizabeth Gaskell

#76. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.

Gabor Mate

#77. It's karma. After almost a decade of eluding it, it's finally caught up to me, and I deserve every painful moment of it.

Jessica Wood

#78. It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Brandon Sanderson

#79. But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Amy Grant

#80. I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

Vincent Gallo

#81. I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!

Tom Brokaw

#82. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

#83. Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#84. Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.

Caroline Myss

#85. I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Damien Hirst

#86. When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

Mary Crocker Cook

#87. When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.

Vikram Seth

#88. God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

Marvin J. Ashton

#89. Yes, he was alone, but he needed to be alone; until now, he had not really understood how painful and heavy it was to have the needs of others always in his heart and on his mind.

Orson Scott Card

#90. Before she'd worn her first black dress, fear had splintered into a hundred pieces inside her, and each one turned into a painful ulcer. To keep anyone from touching those spots, she'd pulled away before they got a chance.

Cindy Woodsmall

#91. To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

Samuel Lover

#92. At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#93. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#94. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu.

Tammara Webber

#95. The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

Edgar Wright

#96. Identity has been such an explosive territory for me ... so hard, so painful at times.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#97. Spending time with her father was like showering with a cheese grate - it got more painful each time.

Steven Manchester

#98. The realization that a bad marriage might be bad enough to cause a painful split provided ammunition to those women who preferred to abstain from marriage than to enter a flawed one. What

Rebecca Traister

#99. Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping.

George R R Martin

#100. This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

Malcolm Bradbury