Pain Quotes

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

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

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

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

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

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

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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.

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

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C. S. Lewis

The trouble with born - Again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

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.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Danish prove

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, "Barrayar", 1991

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

You are looking as fresh as paint.

F. E. Smedley

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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