Painful Quotes · Page 34

It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are…

— Elliott Sober

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through…

— Marianne Williamson

The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there…

— Henry A. Kissinger

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had…

— Amber Heard

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as…

— Catherine Wilson

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And…

— Nina Arianda

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

— Michael Chandler

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is…

— Susan Cain

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from…

— Arthur Golden

A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

— Stephen Nathan

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo…

— William Hazlitt

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone…

— Hal Linden

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

— Robert B. Parker

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought…

— Bertrand Russell

“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm…

— Cassandra Clare

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however…

— Dmitry Medvedev

It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely…

— Henry Martyn

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil…

— Ann Radcliffe

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now…

— Thomas Pynchon

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of…

— Erich Fromm

The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of…

— Anonymous

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By…

— Alphonse de Lamartine