Painfully Quotes

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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me.… — Amy Adams
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… — Bill Bryson
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these… — Albert Camus
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the… — Jim Carrey
The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable. — Joyce Carol Oates
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. — Sugar Ray Leonard
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to… — Thomas Carlyle
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their… — Simon Schama
It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that. — Andy Borowitz
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and… — Erich Maria Remarque
I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle… — Jim Beaver
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. — Lorraine Bracco
I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so,… — David Sztybel
'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's… — J. A. Spender
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes… — David Mamet
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity… — Khalil Gibran

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