Pain Quotes

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.

Mel Colgrove

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

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

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jerry Flint, in Forbes

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)

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

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

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

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

George Bernard Shaw

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

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

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

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