Painful Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

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.

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.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.