Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.