Quote by Georges Bataille

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

— Emile Peynaud

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

“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

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

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are desperate to create enough distractions to avoid the pain we feel inside, and we stuff in as many pleasures as we can…

— Sterling Jaquith

“Nothing will be wasted, everything that we have experienced in our lives, no matter how painful, will become a valuable part of our enlightened…

— Sophie Cornish