I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure…

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish…

— Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

“When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.”

— Sally Brampton

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

— Ian Bogost

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

— Dean Ornish

“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not their fruit.…

— Khalil Gibran

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

— John Stuart Mill

I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the…

— Jeremiah Denton

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

— George Gissing

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

— William Ellery Channing

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

— Tracy Chapman

I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act…

— Rajneesh

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births…

— Milarepa

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

— Arthur Koestler

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…

— Ayn Rand

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to…

— Gary Bauer