Pain Quotes - Page 218

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.

We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.