Pain Quotes
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
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.Bartholomew
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais Nin
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
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
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
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.Buddha, The Dharmapada
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Buddha
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.Alfred De Musset
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
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.Emily Dickinson
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
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
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.Confucius
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
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
