emotional trade-off Quotes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

It makes my life easier that I don't have to take my daughter or son to school, that I've not got to look after them because they are ill. But then, I'm not nurtured and cherished, so I will seek external love from other close relationships.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.

I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it's worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don't think that's a terrible thing.