Desire Quote by Giacomo Casanova Download Open image “Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.” — Giacomo Casanova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Enjoyment Pain Pleasure Suffering Sweet Torment
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however,… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Desires are like wild horses it requires intelligence and character to conquer them. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image