Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Sam Harris

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels…

— C.S. Lewis

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

“The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.”

— Dada Bhagwan

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

— Radhanath Swami

“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter,…

— Aberjhani

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a…

— Octavia E. Butler

“The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities, but the…

— Bertrand Russell

“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez