#painful

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#die #helps #know #knowledge #merely

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

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. ↗

— Archibald McLeish

#learning #more #one thing #only #painful

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#confronted #demons #during #ever #fights

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#barely #blood #bring #draw #getting

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