Bitter Quote by Ovid

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

— Hafez

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

— John Dryden

Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet

— S.C. Stephens

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is as sweet as love, the more bitter. There are more gentle, more strict, which allows as much as does torture

— Mak_786

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

— Helen Keller

The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.

— Courtney Stodden

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

— Anonymous

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

— John Dryden