#painful

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #awakening #confusing #consciousness #disorienting

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me. ↗

— Susan Smith

#day #each #extremely #face #faith

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#case #desire #distortions #every #factual

Divorce is probably as painful as death. ↗

— William Shatner

#divorce #painful #probably

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#extremely #frightened #painfully #shows #you

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#beyond #body #cessation #dying #frightening

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#life-and-living #pain #painful-memories #death