“Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.”

“And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.”

“Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

“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..”

“Are you amongst the ones who find the path to pleasure from pain, or the path to pain from pleasure?”

“It's like pain, this pleasure.”