Pain Quotes
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
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
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.Ramble
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
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
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.Jerome K. Jerome
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
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
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
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".
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.
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
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.Lance Armstrong
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Time cancels young pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
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
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.Charles Caleb Colton
