Painful Quotes

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

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.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

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.