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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. — Charles Caleb Colton

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain. — Julio Alexi Genao

I like to give you pleasure & I like to give you pain. I like for your entire existence to be under my thumb — Renee Rose

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

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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

I can imagine my fangs sinking into her soft flesh, the gasps of pain and pleasure from my bite, the way she'd either fight or fall into my arms. — Inger Iversen

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. — Nir Eyal

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

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

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Love transforms pleasure into pain. — Al-Busiri

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham

pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself. — Lama Surya Das

From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence. — Oscar Wilde

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt. — Rabindranath Tagore

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain. — Emily Dickinson

I care not that this moment's lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt. — Roman Payne

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

My husband deals with pain; I deal with pleasure. They are intimately acquainted. — Esther Perel

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

His orgasm was so extreme that the exquisite pleasure registered almost as pain. — Nikki Sex

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

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

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. — Odilon Redon

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. — G.K. Chesterton

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden

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

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha

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

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

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. — Luc De Clapiers

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain. — T.C. Boyle

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

A true masochist hangs before me, finding pleasure from pain. Begging for, and needing more. She fills the sadist in me. — B.S.M. Stoneking

We learn from our pain. But we are rewarded with pleasure. -Ash — Sherrilyn Kenyon

And i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances — Nikki Giovanni

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

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

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms. — Manoj Arora

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive. — Gabrielle Zevin

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? — Robin Hobb

Pleasure through pain is that much sweeter. — Toni Crawford

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain. — Ptolemy

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. — Plautus

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

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger

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

Peace through Pleasure — Susan Block

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach

I wanted to see her sad. Taste her tears. I wanted to know what she sounded like when she cried. In pain, in pleasure, in both. — T.M. Frazier

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

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. — Orson Scott Card

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain. — Radhanath Swami

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

The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure. — Matthew Donnelly

As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet. — Silvia Hartmann

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

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain. — Tertullian

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.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Life, laughter, and pleasure will be the last word rather than death, crying, and pain. — Jerry L. Walls

I fucking want to do things Mercy. I want your pleasure, but God, I want your fucking pain, — Lucian Bane

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

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure. — Debasish Mridha

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