Pain Over Pleasure Quotes
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Pain Over Pleasure Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
— Aldous Huxley
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.
— Dada Bhagwan
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love transforms pleasure into pain.
— Al-Busiri
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
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
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
— William Hartston
I fucking want to do things Mercy. I want your pleasure, but God, I want your fucking pain,
— Lucian Bane
Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.
— Debasish Mridha
Joy in pain is better than sorrow in pleasure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life, laughter, and pleasure will be the last word rather than death, crying, and pain.
— Jerry L. Walls
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
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
Pleasure through pain is that much sweeter.
— Toni Crawford
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
Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love.
— Courtney Lane
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
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
