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Quotes About Painful

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
~ George Eliot
A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
~ Butch Trucks
It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.
~ Rachel Dolezal
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
~ Debbie Ford
I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.
~ Angelina Jolie
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
~ Will Ferrell
Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.
~ Jeff Gannon
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
~ David Hyde Pierce
We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
~ Keith Miller
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
~ Pamela Stephenson
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
~ Doris Lessing
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
~ Arthur Smith
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
~ Jeb Hensarling
Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.
~ Les Wexner
'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.
~ Ronald Frame
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
~ Ma Jian
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
~ Stella Young
I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.
~ Cary Fukunaga
I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.
~ Jesmyn Ward
Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.
~ Jonathan Groff
I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.
~ Min Jin Lee