Beauty Pain Quotes

#1. Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#2. Love is the beauty of this world pressed nose to nose with all its pain.

Kim Culbertson

#3. He poured all his pain into the void of the violin and gently worked it out, turned it to beauty.

A.S. Peterson

#4. To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Samuel Butler

#5. If there's anything I've learned in my three centuries, it's that I would rather feel pain, sorrow, and misery than go through life feeling nothing. I have learned to cherish my humanity with all it's beauty and bile.

Brittany Comeaux

#6. At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

Cate Tiernan

#7. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Criss Jami

#8. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?

Vicki Forman

#9. She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a wayfarer, sauntering through life with a heart keen to detect beauty, and a mind, open and unbiased, ready to laugh at the absurd.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Susan Kay

#11. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

Harvey Broome

#13. Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.

Criss Jami

#14. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins

#15. Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

Harriet Morgan

#16. The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Mary Baker Eddy

#17. The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

Meredith Hall

#18. When you pick a flower, you become so besotted in its beauty; you dare not judge how it became that way, let it be the same lesson for humans; Spread your light, not your pain.

Nikki Rowe

#19. There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.

Steven Aitchison

#20. [ ... ] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

Alain De Botton

#21. Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.

Alice Borchardt

#22. Poetry and beauty
are born out of pain.
This is their glory,
this is our gain.

S. Tarr

#23. The way he spoke about Catherine made Theresa hurt for him more than she would have imagined. It wasn't just his voice, but the look on his face before he described her - as if torn between the beauty of his memories and the pain of remembering.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. That made me sad. Sure, sirens are a pain in the ass, but how could he not see all the beauty that was out there
the starlight leaving stains of brightness in the water, the salt-kissed wind? I wanted to find a way to share it with him, show him there was more in the world than blood and shadow.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#25. What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

Anne Rice

#26. No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

Cormac McCarthy

#27. Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain.

Holly Ordway

#28. Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Max Lucado

#29. When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Annie Lennox

#30. They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.

Elizabeth Alexander

#31. The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

Tabitha Suzuma

#32. We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

Shane Koyczan

#33. From out of pain, beauty.

Irving Stone

#34. All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I'd walked, the pain I'd felt, the beauty I'd drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I'd taken, would all add up to nothing. They'd be stolen.

Aspen Matis

#35. Life is too short for constant struggle and pain. LET IT GO and move on to the beauty and light.

Mandy Hale

#36. Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

Peter Kreeft

#37. Oh, well. Love is pain. Or is it beauty is pain? I wouldn't know about the latter, but the former makes my sternum ache.

Laura Buzo

#38. Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?

Carolyn Turgeon

#39. The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

Leigh Hunt

#40. Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.

Lauren Miller

#41. There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ...

Cate Tiernan

#42. Beauty is a paradox,
every joy must taste of pain,
every goodness bears a wound,
every faded memory stains the mind

Poeticmusings

#43. Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

Louis Orr

#44. If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it.

G.G. Renee Hill

#45. If life's not beautiful without the pain,
well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.

Modest Mouse

#46. I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

Howard Lindsay

#47. If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor, in which, i can seek refuge.

Jaeda DeWalt

#48. I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity
Freedom from their Slavery
The Truth in their Lies
Life in their Death
Beauty in their Homicidal Genocide
Peace in the War Whore's evil orgy of Death and Negation
Love amongst the Ruins
Pleasure in my own Pain.

Lydia Lunch

#49. You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Rhonda Byrne

#50. What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Jack Vance

#51. You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes."
- Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

#52. I'm not a man easily moved to displays of emotion, but tonight I am weak, I am vulnerable. It must be from being inside her, so close to her, breathing in her pain, and love, and light, and blossoming vulnerable beauty

Poppet

#53. Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

#54. Where there's beauty, there's also pain.

A.L. Jackson

#55. I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

Wayne Coyne

#56. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

#57. I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell.

Siegfried Sassoon

#58. Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Akshay Vasu

#59. A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.

Anthony Liccione

#60. Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

Robert Genn

#61. I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

Jenim Dibie

#62. The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood that was how it would always be - no matter where he went in the world.

Margi Preus

#63. Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation.

Amit Ray

#64. The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a 'dualistic' view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#65. Beauty remains,pain ends up passing

Paulo Coelho

#66. We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Craig Thompson

#67. Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home.

Sara Teasdale

#68. The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

Padre Pio

#69. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Suzanne Collins

#70. Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#71. I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.

Sarah McLachlan

#72. I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ...

Ankur Kumar Shah

#73. Some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

Anne Perry

#74. After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Albert Camus

#75. In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

Fanny Lewald

#76. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Ann Aguirre

#77. Fairytales teach us that love is beauty, happiness, and faith. Life teaches us that sometimes we can feel hurt, useless, and lost. Sometimes we lose the ones we love. Sometimes we just can't handle the pain. And sometimes we just have to say goodbye.

Dannielle Wicks

#78. Aeschylus was the poet of a new era. He bridged the tremendous gulf between the poetry of the beauty of the outside world and the poetry of the beauty of the pain of the world. He

Edith Hamilton

#79. We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

Wayne Coyne

#80. Sometimes it's like that in life too. We look into a past that no longer exists, looking as if it's real. We hold onto things in our life that there's no reason to hold onto anymore because, unlike the stars, they don't bring us beauty, they bring us pain.

Charlene Carr

#81. Friendship is vowing toward immortality and does not know the passing away of beauty (Though take care!) because it aims for the spirit. Many years ago through loss I learned that love is wrung from our inmost heart until only the loved one is and we are not.

Herbert Mason

#82. I wrote because of their inability to nurture me. I wrote to conceal the truth that life was filled with pain and that true beauty could only come from that pain. I wrote to simply disguise that pain.

A.P. Sweet

#83. The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

John Connolly

#84. Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera

#85. That's what sacrifice is - beauty and tragedy. It's pain and suffering for something or someone you love. And

M. Leighton

#86. I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.

Jenim Dibie

#87. If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

James Robison

#88. Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Nick Bantock

#89. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matthew Fox

#90. Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?

Michael Moorcock

#91. There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Wynter Gordon

#92. Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?

Libba Bray

#93. All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Michael Ventura

#94. Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

Kristin Armstrong

#95. And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain.

C. JoyBell C.

#96. Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.

Bryant McGill

#97. While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.

Charlotte Kasl

#98. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

#99. Beauty is sometimes born of pain

Sheri L. Swift

#100. Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Ellen Page