Pleasure Pain Quotes

Pleasure Pain Quote of the day

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

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.

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

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

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

The excess of pleasure is pain

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

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

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

There is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain

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

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

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

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

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

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

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

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

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

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.

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

It's like pain, this pleasure.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.