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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Pain

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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Pain, Stewardship

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Pain, Attitude

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Kindness, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Attitude, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Grief, Reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Teaching

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Pain, Essence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Self, Saint

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Pain, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Heart, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.305, Library of America

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, School, Sunday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Beautiful, Pain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Poetry, Silence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2415, Delphi Classics

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Adversity, House

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Pain, Grief
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Fall, Suffering
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Real, Ambition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.387, Modern Library

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Play, Ill
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.150, Graphic Arts Books

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Apples
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Graphic Arts Books

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Pain, Curiosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Giving, Receiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, May, Anticipation

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Suffering, Lessons
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Soul, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

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