#painful

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#flirt #get #guy #i #kind

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#father #had #himself #his #life

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

#difficult #felt #greater #happiness #i

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. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#both sides #face #fact #friendships #good

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#because #i #just #lose #painful

That's painful always to lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#lose #painful

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#create #creation #despair #difficult #glory