I see. . . a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking. . . It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price. . . I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
Growth is often a painful process.
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
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.
Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.
When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered. . . that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor. . . e painful and frustrating.
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.
you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.
You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.
When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.
We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.