Quote by Johann Martin Boltzius

“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Aristotle

“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,…

— Kit Rocha

“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.”

— Mia P

“Life's not about the moments of pleasure you, yourself can experience. It's about pleasurable moments you share with someone else that really matter.”

— Tammy Falkner

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

— Dada Bhagwan

“Only after experiencing pain can we enjoy pleasure and derive happiness from it.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik