Painful Feelings Quotes

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.

I wanna move on but my feelings too strong.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

I don't know how to be hurt.

The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Injuries come only from the heart.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.