Pain Quotes
The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington Macaulay
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
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
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
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.Amanda Grie
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
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.Samuel Johnson
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.William Penn
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
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
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
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
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
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.
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
