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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley 
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham
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He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
Derek Jacobi
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