Pain Quotes
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
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
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
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
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
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
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
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.Benjamin Franklin
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
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time cancels young pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.Ulysses
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
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
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.Simonides
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
