Disappeared Quote by Hanif Kureishi

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for…

— Compay Segundo

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a…

— Gautama Buddha

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

— Philip Massinger

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have…

— George Eliot

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

— Charles Caleb Colton

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so

— Billy Collins