Painful Quotes - Page 14

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If you are called and do answer the call, it is the adventure of your life.

Life is painful to be meaningful.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

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.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so many times that it was just painful for him. He constantly had to go to Rome to explain his views.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.