Pain Quotes

Bartholomew - many of us spend our whole lives running from...
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
Kahlil Gibran
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
F. scott fitzgerald, tender is the night - sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a...
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Nikki harris - van gogh became a painter because he had no ear...
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Danish prove
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
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
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
The pain passes. The beauty remains.
Auguste Renoi
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
G. K. Chesterton
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
Christopher S. Drew
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
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Where there is love, there is pain.
Danish prove
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.
Martha Singleterry
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Auguste Renoi
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
Ulysses
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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)