#pain

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #painter #rotten #wanted

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#fiercest #go #her #lets #pain

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#certain things #endured #mediocrity #music #painting

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#birth #born #conscious #death #dies

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

— Pearl S. Buck

#amount #come #contact #feel #idea

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

— Lindsey Buckingham

#fleetwood #fleetwood mac #i #like #mac

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#actually #back #black #crazy #excruciating

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#been #fair #know #love #not fair

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

— George Byron

#gives #idea #make #me #no idea