Break Quote by Anonymous

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

“The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands…

— Tom Robbins

In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting…

— William Wordsworth

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in…

— John Tyler

“Heart’s blood and bitter pain belong to love, And tales of problems no one can remove; Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine…

— Farid ud-Din Attar

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

— Alexander Pope

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn