1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Endured pain is pure pleasure.

Pain that leads to purity is better than mere pleasure.

A man loves mere pleasure in search of happiness, which rather led him into pain. If he had sought for purity, he would have be happier.

The pursuit of purity is pure pleasure.

Praying leads to purer pleasure.

Pain that leads to purity is better than pleasure that brings pain.

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

It is better to desire pure than mere pleasure.

...the literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the "serious" and the "entertaining" - the belief that if a literary work is "serious," it must bore people to death; and if it is "entertaining," it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that "the good" has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.)