“… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“Of joys departed,
Not to return, how painful the remembrance!”

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”

“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”

“The desire to possess, the thirst for and the hankering after pleasure or the means thereof, preceded by a remembrance of the pleasure in one has who has enjoyed it, is attachment.”

“My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain. (…) for the sake of pleasure you are committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death.”

“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”