Ends Quote by Cullen Hightower

“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”

— Norah Vincent

Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel.

— Mariane Corbito

“Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.”

— Epictetus

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

— Anonymous

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

— Samuel Richardson

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

A lonely impulse of delight

— Anonymous

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

“Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as pleasurable as…

— Karen Amanda Hooper