Pain Quotes
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.Lance Armstrong
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.Alfred De Musset
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare
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
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.Mao Zedong
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
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
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
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
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
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.The Dhammapada
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
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
