Pain Quotes - Page 98

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.

The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well." He gave her a heartfelt look, full of apology. "I'd forgotten that you see. Coming back to life ... It hurts.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.