Pain Quotes
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
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
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.Mary Stewart
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
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
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.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
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
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
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 to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.Marquis de Sade
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
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
