Compulsion Quote by Dante Alighieri

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s company, or…

— Marcel Proust

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be in love…

— Marcel Proust

“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury.

— Mike Connors

“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you…

— Assia Petricelli

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

“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

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille