Painful

Famous quotes containing the word painful:

“a painful privacy
learning to live without words.
E.P. “It looks like dying”MWilliams: “I can’t
describe to you what has been
happening to me”—
H.D. “unable to speak.””
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience the most painful tragedies by far: but for just this reason they honor life, because it pits its greatest opposition against them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)