Compare Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

— Agnibin Banerjee

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

— Rajneesh

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

Pain isn't always pleasure

— Lynwood Agee

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

— Peter Kreeft

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

— John Selden

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

— Marina Warner