Pain Quotes
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
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 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
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
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
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
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.John Ruskin
The absence of love is the most abject pain.Herr Lipp
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
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
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
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
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.Danish prove
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
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
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
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
