Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.
Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.
I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.
Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
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.
The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving, knowing that the confinement of the hedge we're in is good and for His glory. Even though what we're enduring may be painful, it's good simply because God Himself has allowed it.
There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest. . . it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.
We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.