Existence Quote by Elena Ferrante

Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical…

— Yukio Mishima

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

— Anonymous

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be…

— John Berger

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes…

— Socrates

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

— John Sterling

“Joy is our purpose of existence.   Yet pain in life is inevitable.”

— eBookIt.com

“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing…

— David Foster Wallace

“It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.”

— Swami Vivekananda

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find…

— Rollo May

Its precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive.

— Anonymous

“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous…

— Marquis de Sade

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

— Max Heindel