Painful Quotes - Page 15

• It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupidity, Shame

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• It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

  Grace Jones

  Uncles, Cutting, Hair

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• If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

  Esther Hicks

  Differences, Doe, Want

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• Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.

  Li-Young Lee

  Sweet, Memories, Painful Memories

  Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.17, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, People, Warning

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• If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

  Rachel Boston

  People, World, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

  Stephen Nathan

  Mean, Sometimes, Evolve

  Source: collider.com

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• It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.

  Neil Burger

  Cutting, Editing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Thinking, World, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So, it is difficult to write those types of things because nobody wants to tell sad stories. I think that I'll always tell stories about human hope. I would love to be able to tell somebody, "It's okay. It's all right. Be a good person." That's what my job is, in life.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Painful Experiences, Cry

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.342, Discovery House

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• Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Loss, Littles, Illusion

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• What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Soul, Trying

  "Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers". Book by Ann Evory, 1982.

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• Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Thinking, Ill Will

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing's ever gonna make sense again... You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Real, Crazy, Responsibility

  Elle Interview, www.elle.com. March 4, 2009.

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• I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

  Sue Gardner

  Writing, Emotional, Phones

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• Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

  John Cheever

  Fighting, Doctors, Helping

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• It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

  Leigh Hunt

  Giving, House, Everyday

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• I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Mutation, Accepting

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• Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.

  John Barrowman

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Matter

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• I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Divorce, People, Legacy

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• Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

  Denise Chavez

  Loving Someone, Waiting

  Denise Chavez (2002). “Loving Pedro Infante”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

  John Ortberg

  Waiting, Sometimes, Lord

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Andy Stanley

  Hurt, Grammar, Painful Truth

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.24, Multnomah

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• 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.

  Beth Moore

  Way, Bears, Mark

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.197, B&H Publishing Group

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