Pain Quotes
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
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.
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
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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 way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.Mark Russell
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Buddha
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
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
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
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
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
Life is a great big canvas 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
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Kahlil Gibran
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.C. S. Lewis
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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
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
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
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.Mao Zedong
