Events Quote by Mark Slouka

“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It hurts, but then, what doesn't? Pain proves that we're alive, gives us the ability to appreciate pleasure - everything in balance, everything in…

— Ann Aguirre

“without pain we don't know joy”

— John Green

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure,…

— William Wordsworth

“It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that…

— Bauvard

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

— Isaac Asimov

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

— Amy Poehler

“When people know what 'pain' is, I wounder, why do they gift it, to their loved ones”

— Sourav Pati

Sometimes pain teaches what pleasure never could.

— Yasmin Mogahed