Looking back doesn't have to be painful.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.
Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy. " "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.
I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
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.
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.
People die because they find living too painful.
Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
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.
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!