Pain Quotes
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.Kahlil Gibran
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
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
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)
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.
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; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
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
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
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
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
