Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or pain:
“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)