Painfully Quotes

202 Painfully quotes by 177 unique authors

Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had.… — Haruki Murakami
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn… — Bernhard Schlink
Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully… — Erich Maria Remarque
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?… — Vladimir Nabokov
Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood… — Stuart Hill
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a… — Robert Kennedy
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. — Neil Gaiman
Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. — Ted Dekker
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something… — Maggie Stiefvater
I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on… — Melissa Marr
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow… — John Steinbeck
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world. — Louise Brooks
He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very… — Anne Stuart
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the… — Karen Kingsbury
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong! — Dan Brown
I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will… — Gena Showalter
He leaped to his feet, grabbed her, and spun her to face him. "No more bullshit, Sin. Feel what you've done." He took her hand… — Larissa Ione
It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously… — Maxwell Maltz

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