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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

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

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

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

You should therefore never reveal what causes you pain or pleasure, so that the former may quickly end and the latter long continue. — Baltasar Gracian

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

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

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser

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

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain. — David Levithan

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. — Alan Watts

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

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

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

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

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. — John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure. — Natsuo Kirino

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

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

I owned him. I made this beautiful man gasp in my ear. His pleasure was mine, and my pain was his. — C.D. Reiss

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

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais

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

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

Always more to learn, that's the pain and the pleasure — Julia Glass

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

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

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Irvin D. Yalom

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. — Marianne Williamson

Pain is a pleasure in disguise. — Debasish Mridha

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

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Fanny Burney

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. — Moliere

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

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

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. — Gloria Estefan

Pleasure through pain is that much sweeter. — Toni Crawford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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