Top 35 Excruciating Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Excruciating Quotes from famous people such as Sarah Waters, Sigourney Weaver, Jesse Harris, Jonah Lehrer, Parineeti Chopra, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it

When theatre works, it’s like nothing else, and when it doesn’t, which is often, it’s excruciating. It’s perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.
Sarah Waters
I don’t want to leave New York and leave my family. I don’t like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it’s kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
Sigourney Weaver
To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It’s always a bit excruciating because there’s always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.
Jesse Harris
Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.
Jonah Lehrer
Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don’t get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.
Parineeti Chopra
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
Ian Hacking
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.
James E. Faust
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
Christie Brinkley
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
Laura Hillenbrand
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.
Steven Spielberg
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
Andrew Cohen
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts – but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
Shane Black
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
Bill Keller
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
Robert Cormier
People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get ‘bored’. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
Tracy McMillan
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
Taiye Selasi
It’s excruciating to be away from your child.
Madeline Brewer
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
Gary Zukav
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
David Cameron
I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
Jo Brand
Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.
Pierre Poilievre
Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother’s womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
Kevin Brady
Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I’m kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that’s what I’m looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
Michelle Williams
Life’s fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that’s how I work.
Helen Garner
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.
Brooke Burns
It’s very difficult to advocate for yourself while you’re in excruciating pain.
Chandra Wilson
I lead a very regimented life. I take excruciating care of myself: I take a lot of vitamins, get enough sleep, don’t drink apart from a glass of wine occasionally.
Angela Lansbury
I didn’t have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls’ boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
Pattie Boyd
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It’s not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.
Jessica Raine
The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it’s one of the most excruciating sports that I’ve ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.
Mila Kunis
In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting – not ever.
Farrah Fawcett
Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experien

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don’t enjoy it.
The Edge
I sacrificed a lot. I wasn’t able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating.
Hidilyn Diaz
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins
Dancing is never excruciating as preparing for it is. For instance, the song ‘Chamma Chamma’ had heavy outfits and even more heavy jewellery. ‘Kambakht Ishq’ was shot in extreme heat during the day and a rain sequence in the night, so we were literally drenched throughout the night.
Urmila Matondkar