Pain Quotes

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jerry Flint, in Forbes

The pain passes. The beauty remains.

Auguste Renoi

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

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

G. K. Chesterton

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

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

Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

There are only three sins - Causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

Confucius

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

James Thomson

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

Paul Valery

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

Unknown

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

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

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

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Ulysses

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

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

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

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

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Marquis de Sade

Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

Martha Singleterry

Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.

Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke