Pain Quotes - Page 178

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.