Frenzy Quote by Folco Portinari

“the time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure…

— Seneca

“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.”

— Robert Wright

“Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our…

— Samuel Johnson

“Enjoyment is the first sign of a great talent, my dear! ... Take it from me. I'm a writer! I know the throes of…

— Jessica Glasner

“Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes…

— Thomas Merton

“The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.”

— Peter Rollins

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille

“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”

— Amor Towles

“intriguing sensual pleasure.”

— Elizabeth Lowell

“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that this enjoyment,…

— Anonymous