Painful Quotes - Page 21

• Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

  Adam Duritz

  Crazy, Fall, Appreciate

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• Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.

  Gary Zukav

  Baseball, Golf, Emotional

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.

  Joan Osborne

  Steps, Littles, Realizing

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• Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

  Sara Bareilles

  Important, Honest, Speak

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Painful Experiences, Gone, Ifs

  "8 Celebrities On Dealing With Their ‘Awkward Phase’" By Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.

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• Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Talking, People, Community

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• I think it was a lot of trust as well [between me and Daniel Radcliffe]. If we didn't have that, it could be a very painful film [ Swiss Army Man] to go make.

  Paul Dano

  Army, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

  David Cross

  Said, Shows, Handful

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress.

  Phillip Lopate

  Stress, School, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Real, Confusing, Desire

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

  Catherine Wilson

  Pain, Pleasure Seeking, Bread

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

  Eric Kripke

  Bigs

  "‘Timeless’ Showrunner Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan on Building a Better Villain and Exploring Different Eras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2016.

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• It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

  Elliott Sober

  Pain, Mind, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

  Selma Blair

  Cheerleading, Mean, Dancer

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• If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dream, Sleep, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin (1853). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.246

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• Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

  Joseph Addison

  Evil, Anxiety, Pressure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265

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• I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  Gloria Steinem

  Family, Children, Selfish

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• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Confusion

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• Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Contemplation, Danger

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• sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Couple, Mistake

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Childhood

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• I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Ends, Found

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.

  Antonis Samaras

  Years, Ideas, Six

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Dark, Giving

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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