He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable..

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discov….

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain..

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting..

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but….

I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They ….

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond mo….

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the….

Let us tread upon this path to this supreme Godhead practically and step by step, beginning from the lowest sphere, to arrive at the true realization….

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them..

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them..

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you..

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain..

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an ….

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slipper….

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. ….

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying..

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great..

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 ….

A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The ope….