Pain Quotes

Confucius - we take greater pains to persuade others that we...
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
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
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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
C. c. colton - to know the pains of power, we must go to those...
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Author Unknown
Greek - painless poverty is better than embittered wealth....
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
Kahlil Gibran
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
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
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
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.
Lois McMaster Bujold
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de Sade
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
James Thomson
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The trouble with born - Again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
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
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
Jerry Flint, in Forbes
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.
Robin Tyle
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
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
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)
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