Pleasure And Pain Quotes

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping”
― Ovid

“Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation.”
― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

“By protecting our children from adversity, have we made them deathly
afraid of it? By bolstering their self-esteem with false praise and a lack of
real-world consequences, have we made them less tolerant, more entitled,
and ignorant of their own character defects? By giving in to their every
desire, have we encouraged a new age of hedonism?”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“During the dark hours I felt my sick heart expand and beat more furiously, and I no longer made any distinction between pleasure and pain, but one was similar to the other; both hurt and both were precious. Whether my inner life went well or badly, my discovered strength stood peacefully outside looking on and knew that light and dark were closely related and that sorrow and peace were rhythm, part and spirit of the same great music.”
― Hermann Hesse

“The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard
to avoid being miserable.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity
to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure
increases.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“Since the fact that pleasure is not a good thing is admitted from the fact that certain pleasures are evil, by this reason good appears evil, and evil good. And then, if we choose some pleasures and shun others, it is not every pleasure that is a good thing.

Similarly, also, the same rule holds with pains, some of which we endure, and others we shun. But choice and avoidance are exercised according to knowledge; so that it is not pleasure that is the good thing, but knowledge by which we shall choose a pleasure at a certain time, and of a certain kind. Now the martyr chooses the pleasure that exists in prospect through the present pain. If pain is conceived as existing in thirst, and pleasure in drinking, the pain that has preceded becomes the efficient cause of pleasure. But evil cannot be the efficient cause of good. Neither, then, is the one thing nor the other evil.”
― Clement of Alexandria, Volume 12. The Writings of Clement of Alexandria

“The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake,
leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind.”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“Finally, the benefits of knowing thyself are —You won’t be clouded by the love of life, flatterers can’t arouse your mind, good/bad will appear to be the same before your eyes, pleasure and pain will lose their meanings, the sense of sins and death will vanish away and you will end up having the sense of immortality.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, What They Asked Me: The Fear of Living and Dying Young

“Pain and pleasure are never far apart”
― Carol Storm, Crystal and Gold

“The memory of pain soon goes, the memory of pleasure lingers, that is one of life's happier truths.”
― Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry in America

“Look at me," she ordered softly as she leaned her head against the wall behind her.
Slowly, he obeyed. Lifting his lashes, he gazed into her eyes. "Keep looking at me, Rohan." She held his stare as he continued making love to her. "I love you. God, I love you, past all reason." She felt him trembling with emotion, but she needed him to know here and now that this was not a liaison with just anyone.
This time, he was with someone who loved him beyond the point of all reckoning. A woman who'd fight for him, who, she feared, would even die for him, gladly, if it came down to it. "Yes," she breathed as she petted him, soothing away his grief. "Give it all to me, darling. I can take it. I know who you are."
She saw the torment and the heavy haze of pleasure in his eyes, still holding his stormy gaze as he reached his climax.
He held her in a crushing embrace, looking helplessly into her eyes as he filled her body with the life-giving liquid of his seed. His massive thrusts in release caressed her core so deeply that she, too, achieved her climax, succumbing to the mind-melting wonder of their total union.”
― Gaelen Foley, My Dangerous Duke

“MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — [...] Courage, my angel, courage; bear in mind that it is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Pain is a pleasure in disguise.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You have to schedule your pleasure because pain will schedule itself.”
― Goldie Taylor, In My Father's House

“Pleasure means cutting your pain and pain means cutting your pleasure”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Another problem with repressing bad feelings is that you thereby shut off the good feelings too! When you block yourself from pain, you block yourself from pleasure.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“WHEN YOU MAKE LOVE, YOU MAKE AND TAKE BOTH PLEASURE AND PAIN”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The pursuit of personal happiness has
become a modern maxim, crowding out other definitions of the “good life.”
Even acts of kindness toward others are framed as a strategy for personal happiness. Altruism, no longer merely a good in itself, has become a vehicle
for our own “well-being".”
― Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“There’s value in denying oneself simple pleasures. Delayed gratification leads to a greater appreciation of the little things in life.”
― Brian Reese