Pain Quotes

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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 have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Marquis de Sade

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.

John Keats

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

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

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Euripides

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

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

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

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

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

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

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

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal