Getting tired Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

— Aristotle

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

— Anonymous

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;…

— Thomas More

The excess of pleasure is pain

— Almeida Garrett

“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the result of…

— Dada Bhagwan

“One of the truths I had had to accept during my years on the couch was that pleasure was not bad, that it was…

— Jane Juska

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Agnibin Banerjee

“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are now sated,…

— Stephen Fry

“There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.”

— Isaac Asimov