Painfully Quotes

202 Painfully quotes by 177 unique authors

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at… — Sloane Crosley
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. — Robert Crumb
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. — Janice Dickinson
If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy. — Shannen Doherty
I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he… — Nathan Fillion
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete… — D. H. Lawrence
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. — Unknown Author
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. — Jeanne Moreau
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and… — Will Self
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. — Rick Springfield
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested. — J. Michael Straczynski
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska. — Gabrielle Union
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of… — Julian Baggini
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from… — Vladimir Nabokov
People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. — Betty Smith
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. — John Steinbeck
And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a… — Charles de Lint
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. — Henry Miller
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In… — John O'Donohue

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