Painful Quotes - Page 18

• I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.

  John Michael Montgomery

  Eagles, Years, Broken

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• Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Smart, Moving, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Writing, Past, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Suffering, World

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Jobs, Blow

  "Open Shut Case" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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• You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

  Helen Mirren

  Long, Able, Technique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

  Dick Latvala

  Reality, Painful Experiences, Rose

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

  Adam Duritz

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

  Kevin Hart

  Laughter, Pain, Two

  "Getting Real with Kevin Hart". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.

  Alex Epstein

  Rights, World, Phases

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• It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

  Adam Young

  Weed, Memories, Eye

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• There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

  Hugh Prather

  Heart, Bitterness, Walking

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• When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

  James MacDonald

  Humble, Humble Yourself

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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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• If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hate, Past, People

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• Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, Commitment, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 14, 2013

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• The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Teenage, Block

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.157, Canongate Books

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• Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Prayer, Effort, Desire

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• The incarnation was not initially imposed on the spirits as a punishment. It is rather necessary for the spirits' improvement and for the fulfillment of God's works. Everyone has to submit to it, no matter if one takes the evil or the good path. Only those who take the good path will improve quickly, they do not delay to arrive at the end in less painful conditions.

  Allan Kardec

  Punishment, Evil, Delay

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• If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Spiritual, Dedication, Past

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• This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hands, Years, Suffering

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.

  Kristen Stewart

  Character, Play, Choices

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• [There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Powerful, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't shut down, you can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?'. You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.

  Selena Gomez

  Love You, Feel Better, Giving

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gahdhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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