Painful Quotes - Page 25

• You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Communication, Doe, Information

  "Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home". Book by James Tiptree Jr, "I'm Too Big But I Love To Play", 1973.

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• The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

  Helen M. Luke

  Discovery, Long, Return

  Helen M. Luke (1975). “Dark wood to white rose: a study of meanings in Dante's Divine comedy”

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• Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.

  Terri E Apter

  Daughter, Children, Feelings

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• If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Feel Better, Order

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

  John Powell

  Attitude, Pleasant, Capable

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• artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

  Alan Alda

  Sweet, Artist, Frustration

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• The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Believe, Opportunity

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Memories, Future

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.190, Conari Press

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• Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Pain, Thinking, Errors

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.49, Penguin

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• Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so.

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Children, Father

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.3, Macmillan

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• If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

  Katha Pollitt

  Self Confidence, Healthy, Body

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• We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Zoos, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

  Todd Solondz

  Laughter, Character, Laughing

  "Q&A: Todd Solondz talks inspiration for new movie 'Dark Horse'". Interview with Daily Bruin, dailybruin.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

  Mel Gibson

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Lines, Way

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Effort, Agonizing

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Hands, Soul

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• The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pilgrimage, Climbs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

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• For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, New Relationship, Want

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

  John Hope Franklin

  Past, People, Important

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• You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Views, Painful Experiences, White

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Russia, Democracy, Relapse

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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