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.

A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

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

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

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.

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.

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.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

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.

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.

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

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.

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.