Pain Quotes

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Unknown
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
William goldman - life is pain, highness anyone who says...
William shakespeare - i have heard of your paintings too, well enough...
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Johannes Tillich
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
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
I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooke
Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Billy Rose
Francis bacon - it is as natural to die as to be born; and to a...
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
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
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyste
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
Unknown
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
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
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
John Milton
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Banniste
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Roger Caras
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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
Where there is love, there is pain.
Danish prove