Computation Quote by Epictetus

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance…

— Epictetus

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things…

— Samuel Johnson

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

— Charles Baudelaire

When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.

— Bhakti Charu Swami

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

— Anonymous

“Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that the joy…

— John Fowles

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

— Hugh Black

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute…

— Samuel Beckett

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Alexander Smith