Painful Quotes · Page 40

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

— Jaggi Vasudev

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

— Ara Parseghian

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man will never reach the higher wisdom, If he can't yet accept the pain of change.”

— Toba Beta

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

— Wendy Williams

No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.

— Harriet Lerner

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

— Anonymous

“Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way.”

— Haruki Murakami

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

— Henry Miller

“I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you dont belong.

— Mandy Hale

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand,…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much…

— Steve Carell

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

— Anonymous

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what…

— Sakyong Mipham

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine.…

— Kanika Dhillon

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue…

— Thomas Carlyle

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are,…

— John Ruskin

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was…

— Mercedes Lackey

My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was…

— Melissa Febos

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we…

— Chogyam Trungpa

In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico…

— Laura Mullen

I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and…

— Jill Ker Conway

I remember going to a music company and while I was sitting there I saw Panchamda. He saw me and hid from…

— Anu Malik

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful -…

— Brian Kolodiejchuk

“After listening to everyone rumble with both their pain and their privilege, the white woman who wrote the “you don’t know me”…

— Brené Brown

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to…

— Carole Bouquet

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Cassandra Clare

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

— Poonam Dhillon

I can't explain how painful it is to wait for something that never comes.

— Anonymous

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

— Plutarch

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

— Suzanne Collins

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

— Susan Rice

“There is nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.”

— Veronica Rossi

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

— Clarence H. Burns

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Loving the person that doesn't love you isn't wrong...its just painful.

— Erika

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

— Lauren Conrad

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

— Libba Bray