Doom Quote by Eugene Ionesco

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

— William Hazlitt

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

— Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

— Ovid

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the…

— Hosea Ballou

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

— Anonymous

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

“A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.”

— George Gritter

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty…

— Sophocles

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently…

— 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 is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize that it…

— Erika Mathews