Pain Quotes

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.
Robert Englund
Bill cosby - you can turn painful situations around through...
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
William shakespeare - a wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid...
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
James Thomson
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
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
Pablo picasso - some painters transform the sun into a yellow...
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
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Danish prove
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
G. K. Chesterton
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
Confucius
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Unknown
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
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.
Sophocles
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
Kahlil Gibran
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 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
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
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
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley