Pain Quotes
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
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
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
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
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
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.William Penn
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
The absence of love is the most abject pain.Herr Lipp
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
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.Amanda Grie
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
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
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
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
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.Anne Sullivan
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.Roger Zelazny
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - - Never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert
