Quotes About Painful Reality

#1. We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#2. Begin to assess your own parenting. Acknowledging the painful reality that it is impossible to be a child of a narcissist and not be somewhat impaired narcissistically. Anyone raised this way has probably acquired a few traits of narcissism.

Karyl McBride

#3. In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.

Alison Owen

#4. Happiness got me two ungrateful sons, a husband who hates me, and a painful reality living as the shunned wife. If you think this happiness you're clinging to will last, think again.

Suilan Lee

#5. We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.

Sylvia Bambola

#6. Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.

Steve Maraboli

#7. The gym where I work out in Tokyo has a poster that says, "Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose." A painful reality, but a reality all the same.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Sylvia Day

#9. The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

John Redwood

#10. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#11. Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.

Jonathan Shay

#12. Like an alchemist, he had taken something dark and painful, and he'd transmuted it into gold. In doing so, he'd created a new reality within himself, a new understanding and a bridge - a bridge to Michael.

Eli Easton

#13. They that fail to understand their dreams, visions and aspirations in life and the real steps to take to make dreams a reality shall always have realities of life teaching them the had I knows of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more.

Michel Houellebecq

#16. Reality is brutal or painful or frightening, but waiting is a distillate of fear that corrodes and dissolves.

Simon Mawer

#17. Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly ...

Saket Assertive

#18. There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

Dick Latvala

#19. It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

Petrarch

#21. Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Henri Nouwen

#22. This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

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

Jamie Magee

#24. Love is an ideal. A false hope. Marriage is the reality. And like all realities it is painful.

Anonymous

#25. Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

C.J. Redwine

#26. For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.

James Gleick

#27. In a sense, [Christianity] creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.

C.S. Lewis

#28. The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

Edith Wharton

#29. We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#30. Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Jimmy Carter

#31. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Jim Woodring

#32. In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

C.S. Lewis

#33. The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

Monica Ali

#34. ...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

Taite Adams

#35. Reality is painful
it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing
but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Aaron Swartz

#36. It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition.

Julian Barnes

#37. It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

Halle Berry