Ends Quote by David Foster Wallace

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

— Genesis P-Orridge

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

— Michel de Montaigne

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

— Hannah More

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Seneca the Younger

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

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

— Takashi Miike