Addiction Quote by Aleister Crowley

“The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”

— Peter Rollins

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

— Emile Peynaud

“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Attention draws things desirable as well as undesirable close.”

— Steven Redhead

“Pleasure is the enemy of purpose.”

— Christian Michael

“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating…

— Sam Harris

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often,”

— Oscar Wilde

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

— C.S. Lewis