Painful Quotes

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

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

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

The play has taken on a greater height of spirituality. He didn't make it. That was a painful thing, but it feels absolutely right that we are here. His family is here. His people are here.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

It's very painful, it feels like I've got barbed wire in my chest every time I run.

So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

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

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

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

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

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.