A moment of pleasure is a lifetime of pain, that's what I tell everybody all the time.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.”

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.