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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
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
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
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
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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
All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in theconscious 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
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
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
Pleasure through pain is that much sweeter.
— Toni Crawford
In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
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 failurethe pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. — Ian Fleming
Peace through Pleasure
— Susan Block
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 hellWhere 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 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