Quotes About Painful

Loneliness is painful, emotionally and even physically, born from a "want of intimacy" when we need it most, in early childhood. Solitude—the capacity to be contentedly and constructively alone—is built from successful human connection at just that time.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

The difficult road is the road of conversion, the conversion from loneliness into solitude. Instead of running way from our loneliness and trying to forget or deny it, we have to protect it and turn it into fruitful solitude.... Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful. - Nouwen

Any logically coherent body of doctrine is sure to be in part painful and contrary to current prejudices

only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB Though the path to this discovery is often painful, the discovery itself can be a relief—and not only to us. It gives us space to spread out and grow, and it relieves our other loves of a burden too big to carry. And there we can bear mysterious fruit. [

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

It had felt liberating to acknowledge this to himself and others, to shed his painful sense of the obligation to be somehow remarkable; but it left him with the unanswered question of what to do with his life, and simultaneously the realization that working on the novel endlessly had been a way to avoid facing that question.

Most people have a very difficult time handling anger, even their own. When anger is directed at you, it creates an atmosphere of tremendous tension. With the misogynist, the shouting usually includes insults and attacks on you, which make the experience doubly painful. These verbal assaults can be as frightening and demoralizing as implied threats of physical violence.

I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.

However painful they were, I needed my dreams—the metaphor for my introspection—if I was ever to be at peace.

queasiness. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals—that body of psychic custom and public sanctions that draws a vague boundary between what is emotionally and spontaneously intolerable and what is not.

Time must have covered it over with roses so it would not be remembered. One particular rose, that has an unexpected magic, on top of each lonely hour of gold or shadows, a place just right to hold painful memories. So that among the divine and joyful climbing roses, scarlet, white, which would leave no room for the past, the soul would be wound into the body.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

The not knowing—the hope—has become more painful than death. And that just makes the tragedy all the more obscene. It is horrible enough that you make a mother suffer like

Just remember, life is a box of cookies. You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like so much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now i just have to polish these off, and everything'll be O.K.' Life is a box of cookies.

I don't like ringing the bell at the door. Its' tingaling just sounds beautiful. It makes one equal innocent sound, and it doesn't matter who is ringing. But knocking is distinctive. Human beats something physically - you can hear the reflected feeling. Of course, the hand always gets slightly painful.

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.