Alive Quote by Anonymous

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

— Novalis

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

— Thomas Brooks

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all,…

— Fanny Burney

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?”

— Kapka Kassabova

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

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

— Swami Brahmananda

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

— William Hazlitt

“No matter where we are and what we are subjected to, we will eventually settle into the new reality and try to find pleasure,…

— Wendy Walker

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis