Shane MacGowan Quotes

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Life is here to Enjoy!

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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 hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

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

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.