Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain.

Wendy Wasserstein

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Werner Herzog

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

Werner Herzog

I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

Wayne Thiebaud

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Wayne Pacelle

We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

Wayne White

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

Wallis Simpson

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

Wale

I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.

Walker Percy

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Samuel Richardson

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Samuel Richardson

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Samuel Beckett

...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

Salman Khan

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Salvador Dali

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Salma Hayek

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.

Salman Rushdie

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Ryan Reynolds

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

W. H. Auden

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

W. H. Auden

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

William Christopher Handy

Saving was slow and painful.

William Cowper

And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil. Hence date the persecution and the pain That man inflicts on all inferior kinds, Regardless of their plaints.

William Cowper

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

William Cowper

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

William Cowper

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

Wayne Coyne

Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

Wayne Coyne

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

Wayne Coyne

All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

Wayne Coyne

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

Tove Lo

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

Tony Shalhoub

I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.