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)

“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)

“Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)