What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future. . . how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.
His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.
Obedience is less painful than regret.
I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I could kinda be myself but not really. I kinda had a backdoor out. So if you criticized me, I kinda had my defenses working. And the problem is that some people seize on that as inauthenticity, which is understandable. So that's painful because it's not that you're being inauthentic. . . there's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If you are called and do answer the call, it is the adventure of your life.
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.
It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.
Saving was slow and painful.
Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)
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.