Quotes About Reflection

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

The pain of retirement means loss.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

If we talked about heartbreak more, would we feel as bad about it? Or would it kind of be more mundane in a less painful way.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

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.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

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.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

'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.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

My 20s were pretty painful.

I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.