Addiction Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

— Joseph Joubert

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

— Aristotle

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be two steps…

— Elena D. Calin

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

— Anonymous

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Agnibin Banerjee

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

“I’ve learned that the worst pain, fear, and torment I’ve ever experienced has only deepened my ability to experience joy. I feel this even…

— Martha Beck