Pain Quotes
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
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 estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Time cancels young pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.Jerome K. Jerome
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
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
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
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
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 Aelius Aurelius
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
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
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)
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
