Painful Quotes - Page 6

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.