Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fay Weldon

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments and doves in a chain. The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand. Dawn married us on the bed, our mouths to the frozen spout of unstaunched blood. The sun came through the shuttered balcony and the coral of life opened its branches over my shrouded heart.

Farrah Fawcett

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Fanny Burney

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

Fanny Burney

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Fannie Hurst

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Ezra Pound

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

Evel Knievel

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Eve Ensler

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

Eve Ensler

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Euripides

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

Euripides

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Euripides

Time cancels young pain.

Francis Picabia

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Francis of Assisi

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

Francis Bacon

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Francesca Lia Block

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

Francesca Lia Block

I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

Francesca Lia Block

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Francesca Lia Block

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.

Fran Drescher

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

Foxy Brown

My purpose is far greater than my pain

George W. S. Trow

A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

George Wald

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

George Santayana

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

George Papandreou

If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

George Orwell

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.