Pain Quotes

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Mao Zedong

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

Amanda Grie

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Mark Russell

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

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

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.

Robin Tyle

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

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

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

Bellamy Brooks

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

Unknown

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

Bob Marley

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Billy Rose

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Buddha

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

Herb Caen

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Robert Englund

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon