“Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.”
“This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure - they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust... ”
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”