Pain Quotes
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.John Ruskin
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
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.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
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
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
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.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Arthur Baldwin
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.Billy Rose
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
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.Bartholomew
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
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.Ulysses
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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
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
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.Kelvin Throop
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
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.The Dhammapada
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
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
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.Kahlil Gibran
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".
