Characteristics Quote by Alexander Smith

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— John Ruskin

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

We dont appreciate the moment we our enjoying until it converts into a memory and when it does we can never go back and…

— Frederick A Babb

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another.…

— Anonymous

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

— Cynthia Rylant

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal