Pain Quotes - Page 212

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When you're depressed, it's as though this committee has taken over your mind, leaving you one depressing thought after the other. You don't shave, you don't shower, you don't brush your teeth. You don't care. The one thing I did do, I still ate a little bit. But I didn't have much of an appetite. I know a lot of people who say they didn't eat at all.

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.