Pain Quotes
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
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
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.Miguel de Cervantes
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Kahlil Gibran
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
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
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
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
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
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
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
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.Kahlil Gibran
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
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
The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.Mark Russell
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.Pablo Picasso
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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
