Painful Quotes - Page 17

• It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

  Ian Mckellen

  Done

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• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Pain, Heart

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

  Bill Crawford

  Pain, Past, Order

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• I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Said

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• Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Journey, Men, Disease And Death

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Sowing, Hitting Bottom, Soil

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Serious, Conditions

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• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

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• If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

  Henry Rollins

  Lost Love, Awful, September

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• It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

  Bill Cosby

  Heal, Wounds

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• I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Growth, Knows

  "Watch Jon Stewart's First 'Daily Show'" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 10, 2015.

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• If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

  Richard Jeni

  Careers, Shoes, Giving

  "Platypus Man". Comedy TV Series, 1995.

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• The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

  David Brenner

  Truth Is, Found, Tragic

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• I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Writing, Thinking, Direct

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• I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Opportunity, Two, Evil

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• Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

  Dov Davidoff

  Mirrors, House, Mind

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 20, 2011

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• Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

  Dov Davidoff

  Optimism, Fuel, Break

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• To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Sweet, Train Of Thought, Mind

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• If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects are sure. Yet they are often delayed for a purpose. If the blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not build faith. And since sorrow is also sometimes greatly delayed, it takes faith to feel the need to seek forgiveness for sin early rather than after we feel its sorrowful and painful effects.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Regret, Blessing, Evil

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Aug 06, 2014

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• I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Mean, Years, Want

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• Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wall, Fun, Real

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• One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

  Bertrand Russell

  Circumstances, Knows, Advances In Science

  Bertrand Russell (1947). “What is the Soul?”, p.2, Hayes Barton Press

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• One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Pain, Reading

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• Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

  Five for Fighting

  Writing, Years, Four

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