Pain Quotes - Page 293

Learn the lesson of your pain

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

The life of men is painful.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.