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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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
Keith Miller
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Ethel Barrymore
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I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
LaToya Jackson
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I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
Robert Morgan
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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough
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