Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature. You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die alert, in that alertness not only the body dies, all desires evaporate. Then there is no entering into a womb. Then entering a womb is such a painful process, it is so painful that consciously you cannot do it; only unconsciously you can do it.
I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I could kinda be myself but not really. I kinda had a backdoor out. So if you criticized me, I kinda had my defenses working. And the problem is that some people seize on that as inauthenticity, which is understandable. So that's painful because it's not that you're being inauthentic. . . there's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we dug into what they're going through in their lives, they're carrying burdens that they don't talk about but they're extremely heavy and painful. And so, one of the secrets of the human condition is that suffering binds people together. And when you go through something agonizing, others who know what you're feeling because they've been through it will so often reach out to you and connect with you, and give you strength and lift you up.
I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.
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.
I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.