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Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl

The excess of pleasure is pain — Almeida Garrett

There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ... — Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. — Arthur Schopenhauer

You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure. — Stephanie Danler

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. — Chogyam Trungpa

Masochism is a condition of perverted pain. — Stefan Boldisor

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully. — Danielle Cormack

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton

Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given. — Linda Warren

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet. — Helen Keller

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. — Jane Austen

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. — Giacomo Casanova

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity ... — Anton Szandor LaVey

Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170) — Robert Goolrick

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain. — Dada Bhagwan

The pain is physical, but the pleasure emotional. — Al Daltrey

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains. — Neil Young

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. — Epicurus

There is a fine line between pleasure and pain. I need both to feel fulfilled. — Felicity Brandon

The pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar. — L. Jon Wertheim

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy. — Vikas Swarup

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way. — Mia P

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. — Stephen Greenblatt

Sweet is pleasure after pain. — John Dryden

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure. — Friedrich Schiller

More is learned in pain than in pleasure. — Marshall Sylver

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. — Celeste Holm

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love. — Courtney Lane

Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!" ("The end of pleasure is pain!") — James Joyce

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain. — William Hazlitt

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure. — Blaise Pascal

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good. — Epicurus

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. — Anne Rice

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — Aristotle.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. — Francis Picabia

Pain is the only pleasure in the world, this is the biggest paradox! — Dixy Gandhi

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, ... shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden

Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest. — Loraine Despres

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain — Rajneesh

Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence — Frida Kahlo

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. — Epicurus

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. — Christiane Northrup

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

There is a certain pleasure in weeping — Ovid

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. — Gore Vidal

It is natural to be impacted more deeply by pain than by pleasure. — Abhishek Ratna

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. — Guy Finley

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. — Mardy Grothe

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking. — Catherynne M Valente

It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them. — Margaret George

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. — Mark Kurlansky

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian McEwan

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. — Anne Rice

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains. — Jean De La Bruyere

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell — Richard Barnfield

This is what it means to get old, you don't look forward to pleasure so much as easing pain. — Philipp Meyer

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King Jr.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston

Joy in pain is better than sorrow in pleasure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell. — Elena Ferrante

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. — Ovid

Pleasure through pain is that much sweeter. — Toni Crawford

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein

In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure. — Aldous Huxley

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. — John Keats

Anticipation is foreplay, and...pain is the purest form of pleasure — James Crow

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Pain from serving God is better than pleasure from serving the devil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow. — Demonax

And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be. — Julia Hoban

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! — Hannah More

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain is a pleasure in disguise. — Debasish Mridha

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in the
conscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source. — Derric Yuh Ndim

There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain. — LeAnn Rimes

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. — Dante Alighieri

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. — Epicurus

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain? — Angelina Jolie