Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? (Robin Hobb)

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Robin Hobb

Related topics

enduring pain pleasure

Related quotes

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. View quote
John Selden
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. View quote
Mark Twain
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...) View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. View quote
Alan Watts