Top 1200 Pain And Pleasure Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

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

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

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

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

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.

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

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

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

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those horrible things.

At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however, seeking pleasure from the objects of our five senses produces fleeting moments of pleasure whereas, pleasure of one's self, a soul, is eternal and ever-increasing pleasure.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

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

In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.

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

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

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

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

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

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

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

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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