Pain Quotes
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gough
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.Miguel de Cervantes
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
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
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.Christopher S. Drew
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.C. S. Lewis
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - - Never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
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
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
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
