Pain Quotes

Euripides, alcestis, 438 b. c. - time cancels young pain....
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
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
Kelvin throop - to get the attention of a large animal, be it an...
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Miguel de cervantes - i say that good painters imitated nature but that...
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Dille
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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".
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
Confucius
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
James Thomson
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.
Martha Singleterry
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 sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.
Soren Kierkegaard
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes