You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you woul….

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains..

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain..

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

The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. ….

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a f….

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffer….

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nati….

The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally str….

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on..

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depe….

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright..

The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we ….

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain..

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain..

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain..

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct….

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow..

You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain..

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I fel….

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in hones….