Painful Quotes

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

Crucifixion is the most wretched of deaths.

Point shoes are torture devices.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Pain has no color.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

That hurt querida, that really hurt

Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

An evil word it is/ This Love.

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

I think that ‘New Moon’ was my favorite book as well mainly because I like the juxtaposition of all sudden people being…it’s such a hyped character, Edward, and there are so many people looking at him like a romantic hero. In ‘New Moon’, the way that I read it anyway, he’s just so humbled. It’s a character who’s looking at Bella and thinking that he loves something too much but he can’t be around. He deliberately starts breaking up their relationship which I think is a very relatable thing and I think is very kind of painful.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.