It depends on what type of pleasure it is. I find the non-sexual kind is far more potent and longer lasting than the sexual kind which although it is still potent is not lasting.
This is why many people find drugs like speed or heroin (or both together) to be better than sex, that's because it usually is, but the brain has a way to change its set point and that's where people run into problems - the body so used to pleasure then finds itself in pain when that pleasure is withdrawn because the drugs run out.
The greatest pleasure (both physical and emotional) that I've ever experienced was holding a baby much like in this fashion:
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Thus far nothing has ever come close to the magnitude of that, and the pleasure from that was so much stronger than the worst pain I've ever felt. Imagine the most intense joyful emotion you have ever felt, then multiply that 100 fold, then imagine that penetrating through your entire body, skin, flesh, bone and all. A religious experience would seem pathetically weak by comparison.
I've snapped my left arm, fell on ice and cracked my tailbone, suffered outer/middle ear infections, smashed both front teeth and ended up with severe abscesses in both, slipped discs between L4 and L5 and L5 and S1, sat on a nest of jack jumpers and stung at least a dozen times (this is a certain variety of bull ant) and also stubbed toes dozens of times as well as got hit in the eye with a squash ball.
I've also been through the loss of my mother to suicide at 12, losing close friends due to misunderstandings, being assaulted and bullied at school, and being told that my mental problems were brought on myself when they clearly were not.
Emotional pain is far worse than physical pain, so there's that.