#pain

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#ever #except #get #hell #invented

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#greatest #greatest men #i #i think #lived

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#able #being #choices #choose #comes

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cling #deal #forced #gone #hate

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#doing #doing the right thing #i #pain #right

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ↗

— Aeschylus

#awful #cannot #comes #despair #drop

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? ↗

— Aeschylus

#except #forever #gods #live #pain

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #his #length #lifetime #pain

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. ↗

— Josef Albers

#also #builders #father #know #nonsense