Pain Quotes

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

William Goldman

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.

Buddha, The Dharmapada

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

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Billy Rose

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sophocles

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

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Johannes Tillich

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

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

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

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

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

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

C. C. Colton

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

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

Jackson Pollock

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

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

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno