Painful Quotes

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom

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• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  Survival, Privilege, Burden

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• Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

  Kanye West

  Memories, Blessing, Hip Hop

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Pain, Mistake

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• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Peace

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Payment, Alas

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

  Gautama Buddha

  Resistance, Resistance To Change

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

  Raymond Burr

  Opinion, Reputation, Losing

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• We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Healing, Forget

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• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Regret, Challenges

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Fall, Government

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• My joy is as painful as my pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Joy

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 100, 2006.

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• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Beautiful, Emotion, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Lana Lang". TV Series "Smallville" ("Metamorphosis", 2001), www.imdb.com. 2001-2011.

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• Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

  Coco Chanel

  Death, Christian, Grief

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• Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

  George Orwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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