Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kanye West

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Kanye West

When we die, the money we can't keep, but we probably spend it all cause the pain ain't cheap.

Kanye West

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Junichiro Koizumi

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule,

Julian Fellowes

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

Joyce Meyer

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Joyce Meyer

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

Paul Tillich

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

Paul Tillich

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

Paul Tillich

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

Paul Theroux

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

Paul Theroux

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

Ovid

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Ovid

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Otis Rush

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Patty Griffin

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every little living nerve That from bitter words did swerve Round the tortur'd lips and brow, Are like sapless leaflets now Frozen upon December's bough.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Joy, once lost, is pain

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Paullina Simons

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

Paullina Simons

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

Paul Valery

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

Karen Armstrong

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Karen Armstrong

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Karen Armstrong

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism.