Pain Quotes

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

Where there is love, there is pain.

Danish prove

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Ulysses

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

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Anne Sullivan

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Sri da Avabhas

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Jerry Flint, in Forbes

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

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

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

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

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