Best Painful Quotations
1856 Painful quotes by 1237 unique authors
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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for…
— Isaac Asimov
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a…
— Albert Einstein
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even when we have…
— M. Scott Peck
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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know…
— Mitch McConnell
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Why do you dream? - because there are so many desires unfulfilled, and to live with unfulfilled desires is painful. In dream you try to…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
— Leo Buscaglia
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All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of…
— Rajneesh
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The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die…
— Rajneesh
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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and…
— Susan Blackmore
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It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.
— Clarence H. Burns
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Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
— Unknown Author
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Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He…
— Charles Stanley
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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
— Unknown Author
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Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
— Unknown Author
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We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those…
— Karch Kiraly
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In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
— Bill W.
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If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want…
— Ignatius Loyola
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During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-…
— Elizabeth of the Trinity
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people…
— Unknown Author
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other…
— William Merritt Chase
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It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By…
— Rajneesh
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