Quotes About Painful

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on.

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

Children of Alcoholics stop expecting or wanting help because the continual feeling of disappointment is too painful.

Learning about ourselves can be painful—sometimes brutally so—and the feedback is often delivered with a forehead-slapping lack of awareness for what makes people tick. It can feel less like a "gift of learning" and more like a colonoscopy.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

That's the paradox of self-esteem: Low self-esteem usually means that I think too highly of myself....When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride-thwarted pride.

Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

She drew herself up to the full height of her slender majesty, towering like some dark angel of defiance above the troubled Gerty, who could only falter out: Lily, Lily-- how can you laugh about such things? So as not to weep, perhaps. But no-- I'm not of the tearful order. I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

The darkening brilliance of dreams that drowned. Painful Water.

Yet he was as directionless as ever. The gap between her success and his stillborn career had grown painful. And they needed him to make some decent money.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception.