Painfully Quotes

202 Painfully quotes by 177 unique authors

The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom — Jeff Buckley
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid… — Hermann Hesse
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. — Hyman Rickover
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your… — E T A Hoffmann
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or… — Ernest Cline
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step,… — Thomas Guthrie
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It… — Matt Chandler
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have… — Elizabeth Hay
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. — Robert A. Heinlein
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and… — Anna Lindh
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,… — Sri Aurobindo
You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy… — Glenda Jackson
It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has… — Tori Amos
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing… — Baruch Spinoza
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical… — Ernest Hemingway
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave. — Ann Voskamp
Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the… — Ann Voskamp
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a… — H. L. Mencken
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn… — Carl Sagan
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them… — Wojciech Kurtyka

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