PAIN QUOTES

• We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• 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 ~
• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
  ~ Ambrose Bierce ~
• I learned about life; It is sadness. I learned about happiness; It is madness. I learned about pain; It is reality... And then I learned about love; It is futility.
  ~ Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze ~
• The hidden pain in our heart is more dangerous than an open wound. And the impact from within is outrageous compared from the external one.
  ~ Peterson Maru ~
• I am not a philosopher; I can heal the pain.
  ~ Bheki Nxumalo ~
• You squat with a friend and eat You cry with a friend in pain You push an enemy to death And you curse a friend, When the blood ends
  ~ Delia Mears ~
• Happiness is not an emotion its a color a few people use to paint their lives.
  ~ Raahima Muqaddas ~
• The happiest day is the day I'll joyfully and submissively meet my Maker, knowing fully that I've painted my Smile on the walls of this Earth.
  ~ Muhammad Awwal Zakari Brainbox ~
• It is very hard to let go, someone, you truly love. It doesn't matter what they did to you or how much they hurt you but letting go is always a painful decision.
  ~ Miriam Onyancha ~
• If you wanna get pleasure from causing people pain Remember that before the matchstick ignite anything It is the first to get on fire and it can crush before it's victim.
  ~ Niyitanga Pacifique ~
• You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• 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 ~
• Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• 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 ~
• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• 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 ~
• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• 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 ~
• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• 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 ~
• I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• 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 forever
  ~ George Gordon Byron ~
• I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!
  ~ Anonymous ~
• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• 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 ~
• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
  ~ John Keats ~
• Death can come in the most painful way as possible ,but can teach you the most important lesson of all, the will to live.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
  ~ John Milton ~
• 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 ~
• Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
  ~ James Thomson ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• Life is but pain of mother during her child's birth .
  ~ Nawaz Hussain Parray ~
• Our pain is invisible, everyone can feel but can't imagine.
  ~ Mohammed Arshad Amin ~
• Life will not be pleasurable if we don't embrace the good and the bad sides. We can not tell the difference between pleasure and pain if we have not felt both. Experience gives us knowledge and it is left for us to decide what we need it for. Good and evil are both at our disposal and will always bow to our choices. The reason man's need is insatiable is because happiness has no limit. The more something makes us happy, the more we crave for it.
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
  ~ Emo Philips ~
• You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
  ~ John Malkovich ~
• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
  ~ Mitch Daniels ~
• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
  ~ Ray Comfort ~
• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
  ~ Madonna Ciccone ~
• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
  ~ Madonna Ciccone ~
• Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
  ~ Anthony Hopkins ~
• Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
  ~ Anthony Hopkins ~
• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
  ~ George Will ~
• My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
  ~ Wole Soyinka ~
• I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
  ~ Loretta Young ~
• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
  ~ Theodore Bikel ~
• I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.
  ~ Kristen Wiig ~
• 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 Fulghum ~
• At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.
  ~ Jane Seymour ~
• People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!
  ~ Jane Seymour ~
• I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
  ~ Jane Seymour ~
• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
  ~ Erykah Badu ~
• Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
  ~ George Saunders ~
• The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
  ~ George Saunders ~
• I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
  ~ Jonathan Davis ~
• I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
  ~ Donny Osmond ~
• I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
  ~ Donny Osmond ~
• Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
  ~ Graham Greene ~
• The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
  ~ Elisabeth Kubler-ross ~