Pain Quotes
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.Marquis de Sade
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
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
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
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.Kelvin Throop
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.Ulysses
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.Samuel Johnson
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
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.John Ruskin
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
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
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Sri da Avabhas
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)
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.Billy Rose
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.Jerome K. Jerome
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
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
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
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.Stephen A. Brennan
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.
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
