Painful Quotes · Page 56

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

— Stella Young

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that…

— Emma Stone

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head…

— Anthony Kiedis

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured…

— Lucinda Williams

I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a…

— Jihae

Sometimes love is like an arrow penetrating your heart, hard and painful to pull it out and hurt more to leave it.

— Anonymous

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

— Shane Koyczan

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you…

— George Meyer

It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to…

— Thomas Huxley

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And…

— Anais Nin

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look…

— Elizabeth Taylor

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist…

— Michael Lind

“Of course, it is painful when your partner verbally attacks you. Recognize that by responding in kind, you are almost guaranteeing more…

— Alan E. Fruzzetti

All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it…

— Rajneesh

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping…

— Gerard Arpey

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator…

— Stanislaw Lem

“I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service…

— Maya Angelou

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing…

— Sheila Ballantyne

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

— Robert Anthony

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

— Ken Green

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put…

— Chris Gardner

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your…

— Giles Duley

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past,…

— Derek Magyar

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and…

— Albert Einstein

Some say its painful to wait someone. Some say its painful to forget someone. But the worst pain comes when you dont…

— Anonymous

Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally…

— John Daly

“I wonder if that’s why it was so painful when we split up? Because we’d fallen so hard, so fast. I lost…

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

“It’s maddeningly painful not to be able to speak with the dead. But maybe what Zelda was trying to tell me is…

— Caite Dolan-Leach

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

— Sam Waterston

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is…

— Vera Nazarian

Missing someone can be really painful, but what's even more painful is knowing that your the reason they're gone.

— Chee Vai Tang

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at…

— Brigid Schulte

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

— Amelia Barr

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as…

— Anonymous

Letting go with someone you love to protect that someone is better than causing someone pain by being in your side.

— Aisa Iglesias

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

— Ariel Sharon

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all…

— Anonymous

No one understand the feelings of that women who abort her baby when there is no difficulty in pregnency ..too much painful.

— Shireen Sukhan

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

— Frederick Lenz