I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely.
It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?
There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.
Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.
This is painful and it will be for a long time.
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.
Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
The downsides of globalization are indeed painful,. . . But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked. " Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.