Pain Quotes

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

William Baziotes

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

M. Kathleen Casey

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".

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Author Unknown

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

Walter Bagehot

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jerry Flint, in Forbes

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

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

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

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

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Nikki Harris

Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Roger Zelazny

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Robert Englund

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

Confucius

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts