Painful Quotes - Page 37

• Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

  Janette Rallison

  Teenager, Adults, Matter

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Battle, Life Is, Harsh

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• ...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

  Eoin Colfer

  Painful Death, Tourists, Tails

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• For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Together, World

  Interview with Peter Engel, The Missouri Review, Volume VII, Number 2, 1984.

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• All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Overcoming, Want

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Worry, Serenity

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.310, Psychology Press

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• It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Awkward, Cache, Honey

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• Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Wall, Mean

  "Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

  J.R. Ward

  Falling In Love, Ruins, Descent

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.370, Penguin

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• We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Hate, Lying, Dodge

  Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Interesting, Choices, Mind

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Joyful, Rejoice

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• I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jobs, Memories, Block

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Differences, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 09, 2010

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Doors, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Talking, Topics

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Argument, Confrontation

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.

  Harper Lee

  Past, Thinking, Facts

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Ideas, Missing

  "This column will change your life: do you own gadgets - or do they own you?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Pet, Losing, Sometimes

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• Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

  Kiersten White

  Knives, Hot, Sometimes

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