Pain Quotes - Page 177

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

I paint abstract expressions.

So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.