Pain In Life Quotes by Susan Rothenberg, Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Francesco Clemente, Doug Stanhope, Steve Jobs and many others.
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man’s disrespect for nature.
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn’t help anymore.
There’s no such thing as addiction, there’s only things that you enjoy doing more than life.
I don’t mind if people don’t like me. Well, I might a little … but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don’t like me. I know what it’s like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you’r passage through life.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you.
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you.
truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.
Beautiful people do not just happen
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.
