Pain Quotes
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.Mark Russell
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with born - Again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.Herb Caen
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Sri da Avabhas
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gough
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
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
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
