Painful Things Quotes

• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Writing, People

  The New York Times, June 1, 1964.

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• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Adversity

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Dark, Years

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2013.

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• Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Painful Feelings, People, Mind

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• I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

  Anne Heche

  Children, Memories, Thinking

  "Anne Heche Is Pregnant" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Memories, Way, Painful

  Vogue magazine Interview, November 2008.

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• The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

  Matthew Collings

  Understanding, Misunderstood, Painful

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• The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Practice, Curiosity

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

  Joe Hill

  Blessed, Alive, Painful

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• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Regret, Challenges

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• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Endurance, Isolation

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.361, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  Natalie Dormer

  Actresses, Internet, Painful

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• If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

  Rich Mullins

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

  Mel Gibson

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, New Relationship, Want

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Views, World, Able

  "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

  Jamie Babbit

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Writing, Painful, Things To Do

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

  Edward Hirsch

  Stress, Thinking, Able

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

  John Darnielle

  Able, Painful, Cherish

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

  George Meyer

  Catholic, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.

  Anne Roiphe

  People, Community, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

  Diora Baird

  Tattoo, Names, Guy

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