Painful
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
Painstaking; careful; industrious.
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Painful Quotations
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Anthony Kiedis
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
Painful Translations
painful in Afrikaans is seer
painful in Danish is smertelig
painful in Dutch is zeer, pijnlijk, deerlijk, smartelijk
painful in French is endolori
painful in German is peinlich, schmerzhaft
painful in Italian is doloroso
painful in Portuguese is doloroso
painful in Spanish is penoso, doloroso
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