This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'

Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

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