The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark,… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course Ill hurt you. Of course youll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very… — Shalini Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark.So I went… — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
