Deny Quote by Cynthia Rylant

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

— Charles A. Reich

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going…

— Mark Manson

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

— William Hazlitt

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

— Takashi Miike

As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is…

— Thubten Yeshe