Quote by Amor Towles

“Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain are two key motivators in all species. When we feel discomfort, we seek to escape the uncomfortable sensation.”

— Nir Eyal

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the…

— Pierre Charron

“our survival instinct, which influences the body and mind, is really just the unrealistic expectation that life is always pleasurable and never painful. Our…

— Noah Levine

“Our entire notion of good and bad, our whole landscape of feelings—fear, lust, love, and the many other feelings, salient and subtle, that inform…

— Robert Wright

“If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Very few humans desire to feel their pain because it is painful!”

— Padma Aon Prakasha

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some…

— Karyn Kusama

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions.…

— Frans de Waal

“We must search for that point in the centre of a problem from which all the pain radiates. We have to be brave enough…

— Donna Goddard

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is…

— Edvard Munch

“My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where none existed.”

— Kate Morton