Benign Quote by James Norwood Pratt

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

— John Donne

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young