She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to do this, Beau? It sounds painful. " "Not as painful as the turn," she said solemnly. "And I'd go through this and a lot more to keep you as my life mate.
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.
Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.
Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.