Top 31 Short Painful Quotes
#1. He liked doing research in the library. He liked feeling of accumulating knowledge in his brain. It was something he had enjoyed ever since he was a child.
Haruki Murakami
#2. The patchy starlight gives every one of his bee-sting scars its own shadow, so his face mirrors the desert landscape: bursts of scrub and rocks, miles of flat.
Lindsay Eagar
#3. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#4. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#5. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
#6. Life is painful, nasty and short ... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes
#7. It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
Robin Black
#8. Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
Rachel Zoe
#9. Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
Janet Yellen
#10. There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.
Lisa Unger
#11. In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.
Robert Rubin
#12. One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
Susan Neiman
#13. We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible
Mark Rutte
#14. Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.
Antoinette Bosco
#15. 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
#16. Were men and women ever really just friends?
Jaycee Ford
#17. Alice knows everything about me, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.
Daniel Keyes
#18. It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.
Bill Rancic
#22. Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#23. I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
William H. Macy
#24. Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories ... cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.
Karin Tidbeck
#27. I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
Reese Witherspoon
#28. Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"
(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#29. Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.
Michael Chabon
#30. He's a player you only miss when he's not playing
Graham Taylor
#31. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
John Piper