Quotes About Painful Situations

#1. 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?

Dallas Willard

#2. No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

Alana Stewart

#3. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!

Dorothy Gilman

#4. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Gary Zukav

#5. Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#6. 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

#7. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...

John Julius Norwich

#12. 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

#13. Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#14. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

Kat Howard

#15. How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

David Sheff

#16. Weasley is our king,
Weasley is our king,
He didn't let the quaffle in,
Weasley is our king.
Weasley can save anything,
He never leaves a single ring,
That's why Griffindors all sing,
Weasley is our king!

J.K. Rowling

#17. Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

Jake T. Austin

#18. Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. There's a sense you get from the Coens' work, like 'No Country for Old Men,' where you put these characters in situations, and you just let this painful amount of time take place. Part of the tension is just how long it takes to get out of that scene.

Noah Hawley

#20. To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

Paul Krugman

#22. Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

Frederick Lenz

#23. 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.

Elizabeth George