Quotes About Painfulness

if some natures have to be refined by the sun, & some by the furnace (the less genial ones--) both means are to be recognized as good; . . . however different in pleasurableness & painfulness, & tho' furnace-fire leaves scorched streaks upon the fruit--.

Morality resides in the painfulness of an indefinite questioning

Addictive relationships are marked by their endurance. We are prepared to lie, cheat, and steal from other people. We begin to lie, cheat, and steal from each other. In the face of decreasing pleasure and even intense painfulness.

It is the same problem as in Job. As the highest value and supreme dominant in the psychic hierarchy, the God-image is immediately related to, or identical with, the self, and everything that happens to the God-image has an effect on the latter. Any uncertainty about the God-image causes a profound uneasiness in the self, for which reason the question is generally ignored because of its painfulness. But that does not mean that it remains unasked in the unconscious.

Everything hurts.

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?