Painful Journey Quotes

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.