Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Aeschylus

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander Pope

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

Alexander Pope

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Alex Kingston

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

Albert Schweitzer

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Debbie Ford

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

E. L. James

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

E. L. James

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

E. L. James

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

E. M. Forster

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Drew Brees

If you are looking for your purpose or calling, you will find it in your pain.

Drew Barrymore

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

Don DeLillo

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Don DeLillo

Pain is just another form of information.

Don DeLillo

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

Donald Trump

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

Duff McKagan

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

Dr. Seuss

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Dorothy Day

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

Donald O'Connor

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

Donald Miller

It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.

Donald Miller

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.