Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
— Abraham Maslow
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
—George Orwell
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
—Carl Jung
Thank God for the one who came to set a liberty those who are bruised. In your pain and your agony, cry out to him, and he will give you the relief.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
—Michelangelo
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
—Thomas Jefferson
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
—Aristotle
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
—Michelangelo
Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.
—George Washington
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.
—John Owen
The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
—Immanuel Kant
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
—Aristotle
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
—Charlie Chaplin
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
—Charlie Chaplin
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
Take up your cross daily: Regard no pain, if it lies in your way to him.
—John Wesley