Top 100 Pain Is Pleasure Quotes
#1. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#3. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.
John A. Daly
#5. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: It's loveliness increases: it will never pass into nothingness. Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain clings cruelty to us.
John Keats
#7. Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
Jeffrey Kluger
#8. In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
Mark Kurlansky
#9. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
Alexander Pope
#10. Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
Demonax
#11. The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
Francois Fenelon
#12. Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls
#13. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Albert Einstein
#14. Don't be afraid," he said. "Art is full of agony and beauty. The pen itself a sword of pleasure and pain, isn't it, my poet?
Lisa Carlisle
#15. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner
#16. Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor E. Frankl
#18. I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?
Christos Tsiolkas
#19. A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Neil Young
#20. The greatest evil is that which uses others for its own gratification, which forces change on others and causes pain for nothing more than its own pleasure.
Anonymous
#21. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?
Vicki Forman
#22. The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene
#23. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's
Erotic Storm
#24. Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love.
Courtney Lane
#25. It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.
William Stanley Jevons
#28. The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
Paul Tillich
#29. The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.
Epictetus
#30. Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Inspiration
Pema Chodron
#31. Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Max Heindel
#32. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
Sarah Lewis
#33. With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
Chogyam Trungpa
#35. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
#36. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#37. Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#38. If a householder is a genuine devotee, he performs his duties without attachment; he surrenders the fruit of his work to God - his gain or loss, his pleasure or pain. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Abridged)
Ramakrishna
#39. It is natural to be impacted more deeply by pain than by pleasure.
Abhishek Ratna
#40. Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
#41. There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
William Trevor
#42. The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#43. Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia
#44. Life is delivered as a series of subjective experiences that we have the opportunity to label and re-label according to our desire to experience pleasure or pain.
Steve Maraboli
#45. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#46. God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
Catherynne M Valente
#47. If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Frederick Lenz
#48. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle.
Bauvard
#51. Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Helen Keller
#52. Sometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.
Graham Greene
#53. It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that fact.
Bauvard
#54. Oh, Youth may listen patiently,
While sad Experience tells her tale,
But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,
For ardent Hope will still prevail!
He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,
By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;
He turns to Hope - and she replies,
Believe it not-it is not so!
Anne Bronte
#55. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#56. Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Pain is useless without pleasure. One highlights the other, and the tension that simmers between them is the sweetest of lines to cross.
Lime Craven
#58. Pain is the only pleasure in the world, this is the biggest paradox!
Dixy Gandhi
#59. 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.
Cynthia Heimel
#60. 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
#61. Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)
Robert Goolrick
#63. 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
#64. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#65. Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
Oscar Wilde
#66. It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#68. 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
#69. The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.
Dada Bhagwan
#70. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.
Eckhart Tolle
#71. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore De Balzac
#72. Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the 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
#73. Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#74. Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
Ramana Maharshi
#75. In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.
Henry Adams
#76. The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Mary Baker Eddy
#77. He who has let go of hatred
who treats all beings with kindness
and compassion, who is always serene,
unmoved by pain or pleasure,
free of the "I" and "mine,"
self-controlled, firm and patient,
his whole mind focused on me
that is the man I love best.
Anonymous
#78. Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
Rajneesh
#79. The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice
#80. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]
Emmanuel Aghado
#81. The spirit is beyond pleasure and pain; it's outside them. They are swings of opposites. The spiritual is in the here and now. It's not pleasure nor is it pain. It is its own substance, its own kind.
Belsebuub
#82. The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.
Mia P
#83. Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
Epicurus
#84. There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
William Cowper
#85. Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine.
R.v.m.
#86. I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.
Christiane Northrup
#87. Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#88. The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#89. Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
Marcel Proust
#90. Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#91. 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
#92. It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
Karen DeCrow
#93. Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#94. Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
Ovid
#95. Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Samuel Johnson
#96. It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.
Galen Strawson
#97. 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.
Laurel Mellin
#98. Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
#99. Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.
Kedar Joshi
#100. Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
Yasmin Mogahed
