Quotes About Labour Pain

#1. (Whichever way you look there is a din of tumult; Whichever way you go there are flames and torches; For tonight this world is heavy with labour pain; To give birth to a world which will forever remain.)

Khushwant Singh

#2. The labouring man that tills the fertile soil,
And reaps the harvest fruit, hath not indeed
The gain, but pain; and if for all his toil
He gets the straw, the lord will have the seed.

Edward De Vere

#3. A calling is the sense that you are on this earth for a reason, that you have a destiny, no matter how great or small.

Thomas Moore

#4. Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

Thomas Gray

#5. Just when you think everything was starting to make sense, the world reminds you that you don't know Jack shit.

Sam Sisavath

#6. I had come with such pain and labour to a place where emptiness had arrived before me. I was too late, something black and hollow had overtaken me and wriggled through the door.

Denton Welch

#7. The labour we delight in physics pain

William Shakespeare

#8. One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

Robert Graves

#9. If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Robert Herrick

#10. Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

Plato

#11. If you fall in love with a writer, find your story in a book some day.

Arvind Parashar

#12. And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain.

Alain De Botton