“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.”
As quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (1105a)
“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 239
“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
“The deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principle root cause of violence.”
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
“…to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing…”
Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 1.
