Painful Quotes - Page 9

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.