Desire Quote by Anonymous

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

— Helen Keller

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Without pain you can not know pleasure.

— Tamika-leeigh

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain

— Rajneesh

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

— Epictetus

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham