Pain Quotes

Kahlil gibran - doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is...
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
Time cancels young pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Pablo picasso - some painters transform the sun into a yellow...
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de Sade
Martin luther king, jr. - rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in...
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
Roger Zelazny
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
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Paul Valery
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. Yeats
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
Sophocles
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
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
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
James Thomson
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
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.
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
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
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Aeschylus
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.
Alfred De Musset
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
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
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
Confucius
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
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
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton