Accepting Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Pain isn't always pleasure

— Lynwood Agee

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

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

— Agnibin Banerjee

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the…

— Marquis de Sade

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

The excess of pleasure is pain

— Almeida Garrett

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

— Robin Hobb

“It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain.…

— David Benatar

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

— Marquis de Sade

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Edward Young