Pain Quotes

Charles haddon spurgeon - you cannot slander human nature it is worse than...
Where there is love, there is pain.
Danish prove
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
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
Miguel de Cervantes
Marquis de sade - no kind of sensation is keener and more active...
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
G. k. chesterton - people in high life are hardened to the wants and...
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
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Dille
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Paul Valery
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
Time cancels young pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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
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
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
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Banniste
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Sri da Avabhas
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
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
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
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
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.
William Goldman
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
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
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom