Pain Quotes

Mother teresa - it is easy to love the people far away. it is not...
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Paul Valery
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
Unknown
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.
Alfred De Musset
Isaac bashevis singe - every creator painfully experiences the chasm...
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
Jerome K. Jerome
Maurice masterlinck - all our knowledge merely helps us to die a more...
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.
A. Whitney Griswold
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Billy Rose
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.
Mildred & Victor Goertzel
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
Sophocles
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.
Martha Singleterry
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
Swami Brahnmananda
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...
Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
Christopher S. Drew
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Nikki Harris
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley