Excruciating Quotes

69 Excruciating quotes by 60 unique authors

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the… — Jonah Lehrer
Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love. — Mary Anne Radmacher
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. — Shane Black
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence… — Brooke Burns
I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating. — Kate Dickie
Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if… — Bill Maher
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the… — Charles Krauthammer
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt. — Robert Cormier
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe. — Laura Hillenbrand
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. — Steven Spielberg
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. — Francesca Lia Block
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. — Jean Cocteau
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life… — Steven Pressfield
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation… — Orson Scott Card
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. — Maya Angelou
Excruciating agony makes me cranky. — Brandon Mull
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life… — Chris Crutcher
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain… — Elie Wiesel
I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If… — Emma Forrest
Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute… — William S. Burroughs
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. — Stephenie Meyer
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something… — Truman Capote
He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be… — Rainbow Rowell

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