#painful

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#break #breaks #consistency #define #depressing

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. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#felt #good #i #i can #just

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #completely #confident #go #hopeless

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#i #look #mirror #painful

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#continuing #disappointed #finding #man #out

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ↗

— Robert Blair

#how #joys #painful #remembrance #return

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#gave #give #hear #her #i

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#bigger #boxing #fought #guys #i

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

— Tea Leoni

#i think #listen #must #one thing #painful

Growth is a painful process. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#painful #process