Pain Quotes
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.Samuel Johnson
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.Patrick Henry
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.Percy Bysshe Shelley
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.Auguste Renoi
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
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
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.Amanda Grie
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.Sophocles
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.Simonides
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Johannes Tillich
You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gough
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
