Pain Quotes

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. Yeats
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Sophocles, oedipus at colonus - one word frees us of all the weight and pain of...
Mother teresa, - - letter to u. s. president george bush and iraqi president saddam hussein, january 1991. - please choose the way of peace. ... in the short...
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.
Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
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
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.
Mark Russell
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
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
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Stan openshaw - doomsday - some people imagine that nuclear war will mean...
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.
Alfred De Musset
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Robert Englund
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
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
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
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 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
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
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
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
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, Lacon, 1825
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
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.
Robin Tyle
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)
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
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
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.
Hunter S. Thompson