“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (1105a)
“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
“The deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principle root cause of violence.”
James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist
"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
“…to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing…”
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) Irish nationalist and author
Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 1.
