Painful Quotes - Page 15

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

It was very hard to revisit a part of my life in the In the Land of Blood and Honey movie, which I thought had been buried deep down in my soul. To go back to where we were, twenty years ago, it was painful. I knew it would open up old wounds.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

There's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the "hail fellow well met" camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

This is painful and it will be for a long time.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.