Painful Life Quotes:

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

- Joshua Harris

topic: World, Painful Life, Sin, Lingering

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Painful Life, Life Is, Superficial, Painless

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Life, Depression, Love Pain, Memorable Harry Potter

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Love, Boyfriend, Wisdom, Painful Things, Special Relationship

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

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Inspirational, Live Life, Buddhism, Our Planet, Quiet Desperation

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

- Guy Finley

topic: People, Complaining, Levels, Painful Life

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.

- David Foster Wallace

source: David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.87, Hachette UK

topic: People, Bored, Frustrated, Painful Life, Checkouts

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

- Orhan Pamuk

source: FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

topic: Crush, Pain, Disappointment, Painful Life, Love And Pain

I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

source: "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Hurt, Sleep, Kids, Painful Life, Blue Jeans