Top Painful Quotes
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.
Regis Philbin
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
Sylvia Browne
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Ross Perot 
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Pat Morita 
Anne Sullivan Macy 
Toni Morrison 
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My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
Linda Lavin 
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Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Anthony Kiedis
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
Patricia Hewitt
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
Tea Leoni
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Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Marton Csokas
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
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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.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos
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