It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
Joe Rogan

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
Lucinda Williams

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
John Pople

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Djuna Barnes

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
Avi Arad

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Swami Sivananda

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
Thomas Beecham

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
Roger Daltrey

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
Linda Lavin

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
Lee Krasner

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

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck

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

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Robert Blair

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Catherine McAuley