My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out but is hard to define.

Remembering is painful it's difficult but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth or in affectation.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone I know but mine was plain weird.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God and he will take care of me.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal that's exciting to me.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy or young man growing up having to listen to all this it must be painful.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

But you see that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets and meantime I was so incredibly painfully sad and lonely.

Romantic love is painful.

And in this respect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy a clash between one very powerful very convincing very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful no less convincing claim.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness leaving her without support respect or professional counsel.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together adding to it shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final it seems but must always be undergoing modification.

Frustration although quite painful at times is a very positive and essential part of success.

Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.