“That's only because what we have is deep. Its pain and pleasure mixed into one.”
“That's the trouble with pain, Ellie. If you're lucky, you can wear it for all the world to see. Most people have their pain deep inside, in places no one ever goes. Not until it's too late.”
“Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?”
“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
“PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..”
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”