Absent Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

— Emile Peynaud

“ I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is…

— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not…

— Thomas Hobbes

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

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

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

— Anais Nin

“Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers…

— Stephen R. Covey

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser