Painful

Famous quotes containing the word painful:

“Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.”
—Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)

“The long discussions and painful arguments of adolescence and the fierce loyalties to teachers, heroes, and gurus during the teenage years are simply our children’s struggles to ensure that the lifestyles and values they adopt are worthy of their allegiance.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children’s, and of what our children’s future will hold.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)