You have to dig deep to make great music, and it gets harder and harder. It’s a difficult, painful process to reach deep in there and pull out the real gems. And you have to have that little bit of anxiety of, ‘Can I really do this? Am I good enough?’ You need that in the recipe to really get down in there.
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often – especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn’t know how to love you very well.
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
The history of black people in America, it’s so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community to find love and laughter and joy even in these very painful circumstances. That’s why I think in particular black love is so powerful, because it’s constantly under attack.
People think it’s great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.
It’s interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn’t going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
When I have a full schedule like that, I don’t see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it’s just not my thing anymore.
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don’t have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I’m of a personality that I’m a little stubborn, so it’s tough for me.
Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
For five years of my life, I was just getting by – every day was painful. I couldn’t wear heels, I couldn’t run, and I could only walk for, like, 20 minutes. That’s not living.
There’s a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It’s still troubling and stressful to me.
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
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.
I’ve been around the world and I’ve had bras made in different places, and each time I’m experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.
I’ve had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I’m trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don’t want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
People die because they find living too painful.
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that’s the good part.
I don’t know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
Britain is no longer one of the world’s price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it’s really painful and hard. Sometimes it’s really funny. ‘Foxcatcher’ is kind of like a metaphor for that.
It’s hard to constantly delve into your psyche and unearth these deep and often painful feelings and hold them out in front of people and say, ‘Here’s the most vulnerable part of me.’
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful – it depends on how they’re managed.
I think there’s something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn’t want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base – I’m very clumsy – and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It’s painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It’s a load of fun – when it works. It’s really difficult as well.
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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.
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.
It’s been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it’s not fair or true.
I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.
It’s painful for me to watch someone who isn’t funny. It’s horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It’s very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don’t view myself as a political person. I’m just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
People’s behaviour towards you changes when your films don’t work. It’s a painful period.
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It’s painful, and it’s the last resort for nations.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
It’s so embarrassing and painful to be young.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it’s really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.
‘The Killing’ has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it’s very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it’s still exciting. It’s about real people and it doesn’t shy from the painful points of life.
That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.
I held my father’s hand while he died of cancer, and it’s really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.
That’s painful always to lose.
I don’t want to be typed as a villain or a comedian. One would be as bad as the other. I had to fight that sort of thing several times in my life. And it’s painful because it consists of turning down money to do a role.
