Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.
There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I experience on a daily basis. It can be very frustrating sometimes and painful, but I'm very blessed.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
That's painful always to lose.
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.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn't the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.
Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?' that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through? That is what I can't do with my voice. That's when you hear how painful this has been to me.
But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.
Saving was slow and painful.
The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
