Causes Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

— Charles A. Reich

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

— Epictetus

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

— Takashi Miike

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

— Edward Gibbon

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

— Bertrand Russell

“Being mindful of our feelings we will get Delighted. The quality of life is in proportion of our capacity to get delighted. The capacity…

— Natasa Pantovic Nuit

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

— Publilius Syrus

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

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on…

— Anonymous