Pain Quotes
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
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.Martha Singleterry
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
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
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
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.Mildred & Victor Goertzel
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
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
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
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
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
