About Quote by Octavia E. Butler

“Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture.”

— Sam Harris

I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything…

— Albert Fish

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity, man may…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is. Pain is that blessed and despised universal experience that creates more true art…

— Michael Gungor

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain…

— Azar Nafisi

I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have been oppressed,…

— Adrianne Lenker

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in.…

— Terence McKenna

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

— Mark Frost

One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or…

— Sebastian Junger

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired…

— Margaret Mead

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