Boredom Quote by Fanny Burney

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going…

— Mark Manson

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

— Anonymous

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there…

— Ian Bogost

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

— Marc Gafni

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

— John Selden

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these…

— Anonymous

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

— Euripides

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

— Eric Weiner

“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

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

— Philip Johnson