Bears Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

— Tryon Edwards

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases…

— Alex Campbell

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has.

— Thomas Paine

The stress of not allowing yourself life's guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging.

— Gabe Kapler

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

— Radhanath Swami

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

— Aldous Huxley

“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