Pain Quotes
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
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".
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
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
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
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
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.Mildred & Victor Goertzel
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.Soren Kierkegaard
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach
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
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.Danish prove
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Sri da Avabhas
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
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
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.Confucius
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
