Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jud Wilhite

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

Jud Wilhite

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

Kathleen Norris

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Karl Ove Knausgard

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

Karl Marlantes

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Judith Guest

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Kristin Hannah

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Kristin Hannah

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

Kristin Hannah

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

Knute Rockne

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Knut Hamsun

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

Knut Hamsun

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

Moliere

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

I want to reiterate that painting is a medium, it's a way of thinking and it's a way of seeing. I think people often think of painting as a noun, and I think of it as a verb as well as a noun.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Hayao Miyazaki

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Gordie Howe

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Georgette Heyer

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Horace

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

Herman Edwards

That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.

Herman Cain

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

Herbert Spencer

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Herbert Spencer

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

Herman Melville

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Herman Melville

Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

Herb Kelleher

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

Henry David Thoreau

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

Henry David Thoreau

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

Jill Scott

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!