Pain Quotes

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

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

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.

William Penn

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

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Billy Rose

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

George Bernard Shaw

The Puritan hated bear - Baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Blaise Pascal

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

Nikki Harris