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We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
— Joseph Conrad
You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Nancy tsked softly, and I added her to my Going to Die Painfully list.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
— J. Michael Straczynski
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
— Janice Dickinson
You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.
— Charlie Fletcher
The dead man reviving in his heart died again and only weighed his heart down painfully.
— Leo Tolstoy
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
— Baruch Spinoza
We live in a very special, yet very dangerous time, wherein a new global culture is painfully struggling to be born. It
— Vasant Dattatray Lad
I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
— Kelsea Ballerini
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
— William Greider
The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change.
— Stephen King
He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.
— G.K. Chesterton
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
— David Levithan
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I was painfully shy as a child.
— Lesley Nicol
I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.
— Lucy Deakins
He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.
— Christian M. Frank
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.
— Jeff Buckley
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
— Beatrice Webb
It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.
— Andy Borowitz
It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.
— Melissa De La Cruz
To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.
— Paul Delaroche
Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care.
— Charlotte Bronte
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
— John Steinbeck
I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.
— David Levithan
You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
— Henry Rollins
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
— Nora Ephron
Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.
— Susanna Kearsley
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
— Patrick Lencioni
Emma: It's obvious he likes you. So painfully obvious - and what does he do about it? Nothing.
— Cecilia Gray
Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stupidity is painfully.
— Various
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
— Theodor Adorno
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
— Louise Brooks
He dragged his words painfully from the poets
— Earl Derr Biggers
A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.
— Thomas Wolfe
It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.
— Monica Johnson
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
— Mordecai Richler
There are times when you long for answers and you become painfully aware that you are surrounded by people who may not even comprehend your questions
— Srividya Srinivasan
I'm trying to remember all the reasons you are indispensable and can't be killed slowly and painfully.
— Karen Chance
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
— May Sarton
Oh hell." He gasped, his back arching, his balls drawing up painfully tight. "Don't make me come too quickly.
— Sylvia Day
It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.
— Catherine Lacey
The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I'm painfully shy.
— Lindy Booth
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
— Jeanne Moreau
If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
— Shannen Doherty
It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.
— Kitty French
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
— Gabrielle Union
...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.
— Marya Hornbacher
I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
— Tamsin Greig
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
— Robert Crumb
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
— Matt Chandler
The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.
— Mark Helprin
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
— Stella Gibbons
It was beautifully worded and painfully read; the things that were written, were those never said
— Lang Leav
There are two ways to remove a Band-Aid : slowly and painfully, or quickly and painfully. Your choice.
— John Wood
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.
— Anthony Eden
I missed her, deeply, painfully. But life goes on.
— Neil Gaiman
I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.
— Hannah Moskowitz
Die painfully. Go to Valhalla. Gain the ability to drag rancid, colossal severed heads across a dock. Hooray.
— Rick Riordan
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
— Rick Springfield
He smiled with the benevolence of somebody watching an unlovable toddler walk under a table and bang their head painfully.
— Jonathan L. Howard
Boston was a hard city sometimes. The winters were hell, but the people here were strong, passionate, and often painfully direct.
— Meredith Wild
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Focused men are painfully attractive.
— Catherine Lowell
Here's how I pray in these situations: 'God, I'm really dumb. Please make your will painfully obvious to me.
— Robin Merrill
Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
— Ted Dekker
One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.
— Kayla Krantz
She was wearing a black pantsuit with a pale pink turtleneck underneath, a painfully aspirational look for a stripper.
— Gillian Flynn
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
— Khalil Gibran
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
— Robert Kennedy
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
— Diana Gabaldon
You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.
— Richard Yates