Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne du Maurier

Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.

Dante Alighieri

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Dante Alighieri

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

Dante Alighieri

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

Dante Alighieri

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Dante Alighieri

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Dante Alighieri

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Dante Alighieri

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

Dan Simmons

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

Dan Simmons

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Dan Simmons

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

Dan Gable

Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.

Dan Gable

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

Billy Graham

therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!

Billy Graham

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

Billy Graham

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

Billy Graham

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Billy Graham

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

Fritz Scholder

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Meryl Streep

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

Meryl Streep

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Drew Carey

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

Stephen Jay Gould

If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Ludwig von Mises

Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

David Nicholls

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

William Shakespeare

Take pains. Be perfect.

William Shakespeare

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

William Shakespeare

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

Well it's not going to be painless for the suppliers,

William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

William Shakespeare

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.