Painful Quotes

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala.
It was overrated.
I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet].
It was very painful.