Painful Quotes - Page 20

• I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

  George Meyer

  Catholic, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

  George Meyer

  People, Suffering, Would Be

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

  Jamie Dimon

  Florida, California, People

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sunday, Boys, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Compassion, Understanding, Black

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

  John Darnielle

  Able, Cherish, Bigger

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

  Britta Phillips

  Creative, Easier, Coming Out

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

  Laura Mullen

  Pain, Real, Healing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Museums, Texas, Confusing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.

  Brian Chippendale

  Focus, Able

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Childhood, Alive, Emotion

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Agony, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

  Edward Hirsch

  Stress, Thinking, Able

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

  Rand Paul

  Hands, Bullets, Awful

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Pain, Men, Law

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Appreciation, Healing, Caring

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• When asked, "What do you think love is?" a lot of people speak of things that are painful or lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.

  Seungri

  Pain, Regret, Love Is

  "Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Jessica Kim, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Animal, Python

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at the same time; you have to really spend a lot of money on the equipment.

  Eric Ripert

  Crazy, Interesting, Quality

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.

  Mariana Klaveno

  College, Class, Careers

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

  Byron Katie

  Inquiry, Stories, Moments

  "Byron Katie Spiritual Leader. Story UNteller. Ambassador of Inner Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.awaken.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.

  Alysia Reiner

  Our World, Water, Scary

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• I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Emotion, Shame

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

  Mat Kearney

  Song, Real, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The woman who became the Duchesse d'Angoulême did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would say she had "nerves of steel." As I wrote in the book, one woman, defeated, one woman, defiant.

  Susan Nagel

  Memories, Book, Brave

  Source: teaattrianon.blogspot.com

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