Pain Quotes
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.Patrick Henry
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
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.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
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
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.George Bernard Shaw
There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.Roger Caras
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
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.Gertrude Stein
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
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
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
