Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Right now it's just precautionary. I want to be pain-free and ready to go all out when the season starts.

Ninety-two percent of back pain resolves in two months.

One of them, he couldn't sit down, he couldn't stand ... they were screaming in pain.

William Shakespeare

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Painting isn't his primary job, and, he's only been doing it for 19 months.

Pain is not the problem. Pain is just the byproduct of the problem.

Alice Walker

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

Alice James

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice Meynell

Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Hoffman

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

Alice Hoffman

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

Alice Hoffman

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

Alice Childress

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

Alice Cooper

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

Anne Lamott

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Anna Akhmatova

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

Ann Voskamp

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Ann Voskamp

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

Ann Voskamp

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Albert Camus

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Albert Camus

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

Albert Camus

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

Albert Camus

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.