Pain Quotes

Edmond de goncourt - a painting in a museum hears more ridiculous...
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
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, Lacon, 1825
William shakespeare - a wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid...
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
David bailey - it takes a lot of imagination to be a good...
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Author Unknown
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
Jerry Flint, in Forbes
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
Patrick Henry
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
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
Kelvin Throop
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
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha, The Dharmapada
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
Cicero
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.
Hugh Elliott
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
Confucius
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. Yeats
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
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
Marc Chagall
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Julius Caesar, (attributed)
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
G. K. Chesterton
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
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
The pain passes. The beauty remains.
Auguste Renoi
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
Sophocles
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
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 Aurelius Antoninus
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.