Pain Quotes
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
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.Martha Singleterry
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
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
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
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
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Kahlil Gibran
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
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.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.Samuel Johnson
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.Pablo Picasso
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.Kahlil Gibran
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
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
