Painful Quotes - Page 19

• I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

  Chelsea Manning

  Fantasy, Painful Truth

  "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". Excerpts from instant messenger chats, www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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• It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

  Ian Mckellen

  Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Pain, Heart

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Said

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• Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Journey, Men, Disease And Death

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Serious, Conditions

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• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

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• It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

  Bill Cosby

  Heal, Wounds

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• I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Growth, Knows

  "Watch Jon Stewart's First 'Daily Show'" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Writing, Thinking, Direct

  Source: collider.com

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• I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Opportunity, Two, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

  Dov Davidoff

  Optimism, Fuel, Break

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• To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Sweet, Train Of Thought, Mind

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• One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

  Bertrand Russell

  Circumstances, Knows, Advances In Science

  Bertrand Russell (1947). “What is the Soul?”, p.2, Hayes Barton Press

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• One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Pain, Reading

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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