The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight… — Jo Durie Copy Share Image
I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“There is a purpose in our pain that is greater than the pain itself. Therefore, to miss that purpose is the truest… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty. — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
