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Painful Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:…
- It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
- The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged…
- All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers…
More Painful Quotes
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
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- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister
- My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still… — Drew Barrymore
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. — Martha Beck
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. — Henry Ward Beecher
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's… — Sara Blakely