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"He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure." »Chinese
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"Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant." »Kedar Joshi
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"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure." »F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain." »Cicero
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"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure." »Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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"Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved." »Von Humboldt
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"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil." »Menander
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"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away." »Peter McWilliams
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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain." »Bartholomew
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"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves." »Benjamin Franklin
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"For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain." »Lyster
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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." »Abraham Crowley
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"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?" »Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain" »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." »A. Lawrence Lowell
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"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." »Thomas Babington Macaulay
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime." »Bette Davis
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"How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!" »anonymous
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain." »Aristotle
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"But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive." »John Milton
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"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." »Henry Bromel
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"Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain." »Hussein Al-Khunaizi
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