Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.
It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.
When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
Romantic love is painful.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
The type of IBS I am prone to is the constipation type, where I get trapped wind and can get sharp painful spasms in my intestines as well as having sluggish bowels.
I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
