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
All Painful Quotes
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin 
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My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
Roger Daltrey 
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I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Judy Holliday 
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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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I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
Jung Chang 
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck 
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham 
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho 
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