Excruciating Quotes
69 quotes by 62 authors
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I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I…
— Jo Brand
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Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
— David Cameron
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many…
— Andrew Cohen
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My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like,…
— Britney Spears
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow…
— Aldous Huxley
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There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's…
— Jeff Beck
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
— Mark Helprin
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It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
— Christopher Hitchens
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They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady…
— Colin Falconer
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Touring for two years is excruciating.
— Chester Bennington
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I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it…
— Eileen Atkins
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There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.
— Tatsuhiko Takimoto
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
— Taiye Selasi
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
— Ernest Becker
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