Quotes About Painful

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The truth is never easy, but it is always necessary. It is the foundation of justice, the pathway to healing, and the key to unlocking the mysteries of the past. We must have the courage to seek the truth, no matter how difficult, and to embrace it, no matter how painful (Page 56)

Somebody — we still don't know who — had clearly told Rahul that no matter what the question was, he was to repeat what the UPA had done for women's rights and for freedom of information. The interview was, eventually, almost painful to watch — like a car crash in slow motion. It finished off Rahul's campaign — at least in the eyes of educated Indians — even before it could begin.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

One looks for some other words but the ideas are always just as dark, just as simple and singularly painful.

we become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear.

In bocca al lupo. It was a phrase that the High Garda used to wish one another luck traveling through the Translation portals, a process that was painful and terrifying and dangerous in equal measure, and it seemed right about now. In the mouth of the wolf. Crepi il lupo, thomas responded as Jess's cell was locked tight, and the he was gone, prodded down the hall and to the outer door and away. Kill the wolf.

The rest of the evening I wondered, every second, if he would come back with some friends and make something painful and degrading happen.

Interfering Englische schweine! For you very soon now it is curtains, and a death very painful.

The assignment of more importance to wealth can actually lead to gain being more painful.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."  ? Dalai

How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.

Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Moral regrets are a peculiar category. They are the smallest in number, yet the greatest in variety. They are the most individually painful.

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective. Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or strategies) are developed to cover it up. These scripts are the roots of violence, criminality, war and all forms of addiction.

Moving on becomes so painful when our other half is still held by our past.

When being in a relationship hurts you, leave. Don't stay and keep drowning because love isn't suppose to be painful.

Relationships are very precious, take care of them, because it is most painful for you, when a person you know becomes a person you knew.

Set a big dream and put your time and thinking into chasing it, your painful memories will have no room to bother you again.

May your birthday sex be twice as hot and half as painful as the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey.