Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Pain

• The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Pain, Pressure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, People, Want

• Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morning, Pain, Mistake

• Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

• Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Smell, Vices

• It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Mistake, Two

• Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Truth, Pain

• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

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