Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

Francis Thompson

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Francis Quarles

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

Ian Fleming

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Hugh Leonard

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Hugh Laurie

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

Hugh Laurie

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

Hugh Laurie

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Hugh Jackman

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

Horatio Nelson

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horace Walpole

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Horace Walpole

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

Horace Mann

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

Horace Mann

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

Homer

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Homer

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

Homer

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

I don't want to paint myself into a corner,'' he said.

Joe Nation

I don't think we can get there without any pain.

Hrithik Roshan

Pain is fuel for a fitter world

Howard Zinn

Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

Howard Hodgkin

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

Hosea Ballou

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Horace

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Guy Finley

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

Guy Finley

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Guy Finley

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Guy Finley

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.