Painful Quotes - Page 2

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

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

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

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 prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

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

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

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

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

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

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

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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