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Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
There is a pleasure that is born of pain. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. -- Chester Bennington
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. -- Laurence Sterne
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. -- John Keats
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. -- Aristotle
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. -- Jeremy Bentham
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -- Charles Darwin
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. -- E. L. James
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free. -- Deepak Chopra
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. -- Charles Darwin
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. -- Tony Robbins
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. -- Tony Robbins
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. -- M. Scott Peck
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. -- Jeremy Bentham
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. -- George A. Sheehan
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it. -- Dalai Lama
Love transforms pleasure into pain. -- Al-Busiri
It's like pain, this pleasure. -- Stephenie Meyer
The excess of pleasure is pain -- Almeida Garrett
Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure. -- Epictetus
High heels are pleasure with pain. -- Christian Louboutin
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. -- Horace
Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it. -- Mason Cooley
You will never understand pleasure without pain. -- T. D. Jakes
Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant. -- Kedar Joshi
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain. -- William Hazlitt
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. -- Francis Picabia
So through identification you have pleasure and pain. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain -- Emily Dickinson
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. -- Horace
More is learned in pain than in pleasure. -- Marshall Sylver
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. -- Plautus
Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure. -- Michel de Montaigne
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. -- Samuel Johnson
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. -- Edward Young
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. -- John Selden
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. -- Ernst Mach
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. -- Marina Warner
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain. -- Walter Scott
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. -- Ovid
But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain. -- John Dryden
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain -- Sharon Olds
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. -- Anne Rice
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. -- Leigh Hunt
The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. -- Pema Chodron
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain -- Robert Browning
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. -- George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. -- Anne Rice
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure? -- Gena Showalter
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? -- Samuel Johnson
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. -- Marquis de Sade
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. -- Neil Gaiman
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. -- Pierre Charron
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain. -- T.C. Boyle
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! -- Hannah More
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. -- Horace Mann
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. -- John Stuart Mill
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? -- Robin Hobb
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -- Jane Austen
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. -- Rajneesh
You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on. -- Ken Wilber
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. -- Epicurus
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. -- Alan Watts
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain -- Moliere
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. -- Marianne Williamson
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain -- Rajneesh
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. -- Bette Davis
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain -- Bob Dylan
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. -- Moliere
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. -- Jeff Noon
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. -- Samuel Johnson
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness -- Ramana Maharshi
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. -- Fanny Burney
The state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. -- Herbert Spencer
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. -- Dante Alighieri
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny. -- Tony Robbins
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain -- Aristotle
There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain. -- LeAnn Rimes
People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure. -- Tony Robbins
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. -- Benjamin Franklin
Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! -- Anthony Marais
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. -- Julian Barnes
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. -- Lisa Kleypas
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. -- Rajneesh
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. -- Mark Strand
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. -- Gloria Estefan
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. -- William Ernest Henley
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. -- Christiane Northrup
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. -- Claude Adrien Helvétius
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure. -- Cherise Sinclair
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge -- Vivian Gornick
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. -- John Dryden
O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. -- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. -- Deepak Chopra

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