Pain Quotes (1570)

Quotes and citations about pain

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go.. view

By: William C. Bryant

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien... view

By: Gavin Bryars

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled... view

By: Georg Buchner

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea... view

By: Pearl S. Buck

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done... view

By: Lindsey Buckingham

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making... view

By: Lindsey Buckingham

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process... view

By: Lindsey Buckingham

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him... view

By: Buddha

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain... view

By: Jimmy Buffett

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday... view

By: Sophia Bush

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed... view

By: Joseph Butler

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable... view

By: Samuel Butler

To give pain is the tyranny.. view

By: Samuel Butler

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one... view

By: George Byron

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.. view

By: George Byron

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain... view

By: Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress... view

By: Lord Byron

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence.. view

By: Lord Byron

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful... view

By: James Caan

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment... view

By: Vince Cable

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around... view

By: Herb Caen

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience... view

By: Julius Caesar

I paint with shapes... view

By: Alexander Calder

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes... view

By: Ada Cambridge

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots... view

By: James Cameron

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain... view

By: Joseph Campbell

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting... view

By: Albert Camus

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again... view

By: Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting... view

By: Max Cannon

I wanted to be a painter... view

By: Max Cannon

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to... view

By: Blu Cantrell

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere... view

By: Karel Capek

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself... view

By: Truman Capote

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing... view

By: Roger Caras

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?.. view

By: Leslie Caron

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women... view

By: Emily Carr

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul... view

By: Emily Carr

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter... view

By: Jim Carrey

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me... view

By: Jim Carrey