Pain Quotes
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
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
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
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
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
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
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
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
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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
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
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
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
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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.
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
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
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
