Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. Votes: 2
F. Scott FitzgeraldNature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Votes: 2
Jeremy BenthamThe most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawPleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. Votes: 0
Pierre CharronStrange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! Votes: 0
Hannah MoreAnticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? Votes: 0
Robin HobbTragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyExpect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. Votes: 0
Jeff NoonPleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIf you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. Votes: 0
Irvin D. YalomPleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness Votes: 0
Ramana MaharshiGenerosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. Votes: 0
Fanny BurneyThe state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaEvery pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerLife is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. Votes: 0
Chogyam TrungpaUp is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... Votes: 0
Anton Szandor LaVeyNothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinInfatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! Votes: 0
Anthony MaraisThe preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAnd yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Votes: 0
Julian BarnesMy prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasPleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. Votes: 0
RajneeshWe must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. Votes: 0
Gloria EstefanMen may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. Votes: 0
William Ernest HenleyPain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. Votes: 0
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. Votes: 0
Christiane NorthrupPleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. Votes: 0
Claude Adrien HelvetiusWhat Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge Votes: 0
Vivian GornickFor all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. Votes: 0
John DrydenO Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. Votes: 0
George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneMost human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraThis is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronPleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. Votes: 0
Jeremy BenthamWhy do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? Votes: 0
Marian KeyesFear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraNeither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. Votes: 0
Julius EvolaLove is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell Votes: 0
Richard BarnfieldHe squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure. Votes: 0
Stephenie MeyerPeople talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. Votes: 0
Paul TherouxI do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonAcceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine. Votes: 0
Innocent MwatsikesimbeIn youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. Votes: 0
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount SidmouthPleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. Votes: 0
AristotleIllusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudOnly where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. Votes: 0
Max HeindelWhat we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellPity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWhat is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. Votes: 0
Gore VidalChasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. Votes: 0
Guy FinleyRid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. Votes: 0
J.P. DonleavyLife is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaAll objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaI cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me Votes: 0
E. L. JamesIf we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us. Votes: 0
Brother LawrenceThe happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure. Votes: 0
Henri RousseauThe seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonIf it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. Votes: 0
Jimmy BuffettPleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. Votes: 0
J. M. CoetzeeIt is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure. Votes: 0
Catherine WilsonPleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajFor every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content. Votes: 0
Ella Wheeler WilcoxMan's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. Votes: 0
Viktor E. FranklThere is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain Votes: 0
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