Creatures Quote by Anthony Trollope

There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a…

— Gilbert Burnet

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

— William Hazlitt

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

— Willard Gaylin

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

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

— Lin Yutang

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty;…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence,…

— John Calvin

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better…

— Swami Vivekananda

God seems to reward us with good, delightful experiences when we move with joy through the less-than-delightful times.

— Charles R. Swindoll