Pain Quotes

Kahlil gibran, the broken wings - i am one of those who believe that spiritual...
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
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
Billy rose - never invest in anything that eats or needs...
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
Roger Zelazny
Pablo picasso - painting is just another way of keeping a diary....
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
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
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
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.
Alfred De Musset
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
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Robert Englund
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
Unknown
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Greek
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
Patrick Henry
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
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
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
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
You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
G. K. Chesterton