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• I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Car, Afternoon, Necks

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Guilty Pleasures”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

  Orson Scott Card

  Agony, Bears, Misery

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.187, Macmillan

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• The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Creation Of Man, Would Be

  "The Immoralist".

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• God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

  Rick Warren

  Painful Experiences, Ministry

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  Tony Kushner

  Dream, Progress, World

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.285, Theatre Communications Group

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• How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

  Arthur Golden

  Wish, Lessons, May

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• The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Father, Long, League

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• Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Reality, Useless

  Michel Houellebecq (2005). “H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life”, McSweeney's

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• I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Psychics, World

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• Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

  John Cassavetes

  Mean, Artist, People

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• Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid-- things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Beautiful, Lying, Giving

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• If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Growing Up, Southern

  1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

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• The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Sleep, Home, Missing

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• All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Catholic, Grace, Human Nature

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.307, Macmillan

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• Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

  Julia Quinn

  Knows, Hard

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• If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Style, Deceit

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

  Shannon Hale

  Inspirational, Solitude, Students

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.57, A&C Black

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

  Robin McKinley

  Eye, Tree, Bruises

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• "Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." "Something bad might happen..." "Impossible. But possibly something painful."

  Diane Duane

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

  Jodi Picoult

  Funny Things, One Day, Looks

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• The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Remember, States

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• The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Mean, Practice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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