Pain Quotes

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
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Paul valery - a painter should not paint what he sees but what...
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
Confucius - we take greater pains to persuade others that we...
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
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.
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.
Alfred De Musset
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
Jerry Flint, in Forbes
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Mohandas karamchand gandhi - the sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of...
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de Sade
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
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Nikki Harris
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. Yeats
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.
Charles Caleb Colton
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Ramble
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.
Hunter S. Thompson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
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
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gough
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes