Painful Quotes - Page 40

• I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

  George Clooney

  Mistake, Dumb, Trying

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• Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

  Kate Mosse

  Love Is, Color, Purpose

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• What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

  Alan Watts

  Safety, Imagine, Found

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• 'Will,' she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. 'Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.'

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Hair, Hands

  "Clockwork Prince". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2011.

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• She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

  Ann Brashares

  Fun, Adventure, Romance

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.22, Random House

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Sweet, Pain, Memories

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• Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

  Lauren Oliver

  Valentines Day, Ice Cream, Hot

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Destiny, Practice

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• Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.

  Tupac Shakur

  Moving, Heart, Long

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• At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.

  Ann Brashares

  Over You, Feelings, Comfort

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.207, Penguin

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• I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Pain, Fighting, Emotional

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.52, Penguin

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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

  Brené Brown

  Positive, Abnormal Psychology, Emotion

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.

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• Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Pops, Existence

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.432, Delacorte Press

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• Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. “Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. “Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, Eye, Laughing

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• At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Kind, Melancholy, Moments

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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• Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love .

  John Gray

  Memories, Next Day, Feelings

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dream, Might, Possibility

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Memories, Past, Focus

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.108, Macmillan

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• In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: “We need her with us; she’s the best there is. Aside from me, of course.” She had loved him just for that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hunting, Leaving, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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• Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

  Umera Ahmed

  Born, Be Good, Virtuous

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• Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything." He stroked a hand down her back. "Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.

  Jill Shalvis

  Memories, Fall, Life Is Good

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jan 26, 2013

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