Pleasurable Pain Quotes

#1. They kept flipping back and forth, but it wasn't clear which was the more exquisitely pleasurable pain, to penetrate or to be penetrated.

Edmund White

#2. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial lite. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of times he obeyed.

Jack London

#3. I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

Giacomo Manzu

#4. 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

#5. Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#6. The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis,

William R. Forstchen

#8. Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

Barton Gellman

#9. I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

Shirley Manson

#10. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

Nancy Hale

#11. Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Kailash Satyarthi

#12. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

John H. Aughey

#13. You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.

John Scalzi

#14. It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

Susan L. Taylor

#15. The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

Vincent Van Gogh

#16. I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.

Philip Larkin