Pain Quotes
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
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
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.Emily Dickinson
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
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
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.Albert Einstein
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
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.Mark Russell
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.William Penn
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
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.John Ruskin
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
