Avoidance Quote by Epicurus

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always…

— Epicurus

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else,…

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— William Hazlitt

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body…

— Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus