Pain and pleasure Quotes

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

— James Earl Jones

“The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.”

— Dada Bhagwan

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

— Jay Baer

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

— Chester Bennington

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

— John Dryden

“For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.”

— Manoj Arora

“All orgasms were good orgasms, but the ones that walked the line between pain and pleasure were bliss.”

— Adriane Leigh

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too…

— Christopher Paolini

“That's only because what we have is deep. Its pain and pleasure mixed into one.”

— C.C. Brown

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— John Keats

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is a beautiful poem interspersed with the words of pain and pleasure and its script, music, composition, lyrics, chorus and everything…

— Anuj Somany

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are…

— Plato

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need…

— Ptolemy

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for…

— Friedrich Schiller

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize…

— William Stanley Jevons

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good…

— Marcus Aurelius

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its…

— Anne Carson

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and…

— Deepak Chopra

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in…

— Jeremy Bentham

It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel…

— Galen Strawson

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its…

— Anonymous

“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the…

— Pema Chödrön

You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would…

— E. M. Forster

“As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think. Certainly few people had ever interested him…

— Oscar Wilde

The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships…

— James W. Prescott

“The distance runner who accepts the past in the person he is, and sees the future as a promise rather than a…

— George Sheehan

“You've got the wrong girl." "On the contrary..." the voice murmured, "I've got exactly the girl I want." Her body turned to…

— Richie Tankersley Cusick