Quotes about pain
pain without-pain
We can't learn without pain. Aristotle
pain noble causes
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
pain laughter doe
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
pain opposites quality
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
pain men law
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.
pain mean bravery
Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
pain mean awards
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
pain errors evil
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
pain children learning
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
pain fear philosophical
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
pain lying long
The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain. Ben Harper
pain struggle grief
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears. Alexandre Dumas
pain believe
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
pain heart may
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
pain lying world
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. Albert Schweitzer
pain privilege lord
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
pain eye animal
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
pain mean secret
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.
pain eye responsibility
The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
painter
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. Gail Carson Levine
pain forever film
The pain is temporary, the film is forever Leonardo DiCaprio
pain believe devil
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.
pain kindness heart
Everyone of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Everyone knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.
pain style smallest
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. Samuel Butler
pain years guilt
One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear. Alan Cohen
pain protect protect-yourself
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
pain stones use
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
pain mind causes
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
pain exercise thinking
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. Aleister Crowley
pain taken sadness
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Albert Einstein
pain pining
Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.
painting canvas problem
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Alfred Sisley
pain grateful evil
Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. Alfred Lord Tennyson