Painful Quotes - Page 8

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

My joy is as painful as my pain.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.