Alliances Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“First, human character was varied. Second, pleasure lay less in feeling things than in doing things, that is in pursuits and activities. Last, certain…

— Edmund Fawcett

“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and keep it…

— Tatjana Soli

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as…

— Alain de Botton

“The good news is that just like pleasure can become pain with repeated use, we can also transform painful activities into pleasant ones with…

— Awdhesh Singh

“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

“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

“There is no greater pleasure than the cessation of pain, she thought. It was a quote from a book she’d once read. And it…

— Heather Killough-Walden

“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited to see…

— Ayn Rand

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

— John Keats

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

— Mardy Grothe