Painful Quotes · Page 52

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a…

— Osamu Dazai

[There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's…

— Michelle Rodriguez

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

— Edmund Spenser

When you design someone's house, it's actually painful. I never say, "This house will be a total reflection of you and any…

— Peter Marino

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as…

— Dan Simmons

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard…

— Angelina Jolie

I got to 16st when it became painful for me to walk.

— Jimmy White

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

— Martha Beck

Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

— J. D. Trout

“The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal…

— Alex Flinn

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle…

— Emmett Tyrrell

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of…

— Pat Morita

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage…

— Rajneesh

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

— Claude Lelouch

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful…

— Patrick Henry

I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to…

— Ariel Sharon

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all,…

— Eric Rohmer

Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism…

— Phillip Lopate

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

— Gayle Forman

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

— Isaac Asimov

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

— Carmen Laforet

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think…

— Geddy Lee

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful…

— W. Somerset Maugham