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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. -- Ian Mcewan
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead. -- Dalai Lama
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence -- Frida Kahlo
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. -- Frederick Lenz
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
It's like pain, this pleasure. -- Stephenie Meyer
Love transforms pleasure into pain. -- Al-Busiri
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain. -- William Hazlitt
You will never understand pleasure without pain. -- T. D. Jakes
Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant. -- Kedar Joshi
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
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. -- Francis Picabia
More is learned in pain than in pleasure. -- Marshall Sylver
Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure. -- Michel de Montaigne
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. -- Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. -- John Selden
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. -- Edward Young
There is a pleasure that is born of pain. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. -- Plautus
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. -- Leigh Hunt
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. -- Marina Warner
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain. -- Ovid
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. -- Ernst Mach
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. -- Anne Rice
But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain. -- John Dryden
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain. -- Walter Scott
The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. -- Laurence Sterne
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. -- Pema Chodron
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. -- Chester Bennington
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain -- Sharon Olds
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain -- Robert Browning
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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 is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. -- John Keats
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? -- Samuel Johnson
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. -- Anne Rice
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain! -- Hannah More
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
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. -- Rajneesh
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain. -- John Dryden
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -- Jane Austen
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? -- Robin Hobb
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
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. -- John Stuart Mill
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. -- Horace Mann
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain -- Rajneesh
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. -- Moliere
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. -- Bette Davis
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain -- Bob Dylan
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain. -- Marianne Williamson
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
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. -- Fanny Burney
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness -- Ramana Maharshi
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
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. -- Aristotle
People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure. -- Tony Robbins
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. -- Jeremy Bentham
There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain. -- LeAnn Rimes
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain -- Aristotle
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. -- Chogyam Trungpa
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. -- Dante Alighieri
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. -- Benjamin Franklin
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. -- Rajneesh
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... -- Anton Szandor LaVey
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
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. -- William Ernest Henley
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. -- Lisa Kleypas
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
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. -- Mark Strand
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. -- Claude Adrien Helvétius
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. -- Gloria Estefan
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
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
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. -- Pema Chodron
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
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? -- Marian Keyes
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. -- Jeremy Bentham
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. -- Julius Evola
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. -- Deepak Chopra
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. -- John Dryden
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell -- Richard Barnfield
Acceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. -- Paul Theroux
He squeezes my hand, and my heart punches against my ribs. It's just like pain, this pleasure. -- Stephenie Meyer

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