Comparable Quote by Alone Boy

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

— Henry Suso

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

— Sophocles

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

— Michel de Montaigne

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

— David O. McKay

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

— Charles Baudelaire

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

— Henry Fielding