Ease Quote by Samuel Johnson

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

— Robert Browning

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

— Edmund Spenser

Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

— Epictetus

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

— John Selden

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

— Samuel Johnson

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling…

— Tertullian

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

— Mason Cooley

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

— Horace Mann