#pain

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ends #freedom #freedom from #only #pain

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#behind #ever #fleeting #gift #grief

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#same #words

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with. ↗

— Martin Mull

#basically #certain #fascination #grew #had

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#eyes #order #ought #out #painters

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. ↗

— Robert Plant

#just #new #nothing #nothing new #out