Pain Quotes
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
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
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
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
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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".
The absence of love is the most abject pain.Herr Lipp
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.Mildred & Victor Goertzel
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - - Never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
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
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
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
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.Eduard Hanslick
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.Ramble
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
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
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
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
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
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
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
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
