Painful Quotes - Page 26

• It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

  Tony Parsons

  Sometimes, Break, Messy

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• I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

  Jamie Babbit

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Battle, Hardship

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• We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

  Robert Anthony

  Past, Events, Matter

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.104, Morgan James Publishing

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• Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

  Robert Blair

  Pain, Remembrance, Joy

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9

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• There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Way

  Tom Watson (1980). “The Rules of Golf Illustrated and Explained”, Random House Trade

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• Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

  Claude Lelouch

  Character, Perfect, Shame

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Kids, Simple, Thinking

  "Ethan Hawke's Fifth Elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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• If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Grief, Tools, Looks

  "Rabbit Hole - Aaron Eckhart interview". Interview with Interview with, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.

  Laurence Yep

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

  Leslye Headland

  Beautiful, Past, Heartache

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

  M. Scott Peck

  World, Examination

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

  Jonathan Cain

  Children, Unique, Painful Experiences

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• I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

  Ian Mcewan

  Nuts, Paraplegics, Contemplating

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

  Joshua Harris

  World, Painful Life, Sin

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• People die because they find living too painful.

  Malcolm Fraser

  People, Dies

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, People, Interesting

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Book, Ideas

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• We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Lakes, Dancing

  "Grateful in Any Circumstances". Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Fiction, Duty

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

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• Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Fun, Love You

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• Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Discovery, Theological, Competent

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• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes.

  Pema Chodron

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

  Edmund Spenser

  Depressing, Pain, Pleasure

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 3, canto 10, st. 60

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• Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

  Djuna Barnes

  Funny, Life Is Short, Bad Day

  Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). “Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs”, p.285, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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