Caress Quote by Anonymous

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man,…

— Anonymous

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

— Swami Vivekananda

“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who is forced…

— Sándor Márai

Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears…

— Reginald Heber

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and…

— James E. Faust

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

“His large ears Hear everything A hermit wakes And sleeps in a hut Underneath His gaunt cheeks. His eyes blue, alert, Disappointed, And suspicious,…

— Robert Bly

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And,…

— Clive Barker

“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and…

— John Ruskin

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can…

— Laurence Sterne