Abandon Quote by Marcel Proust

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

— Stephen King

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

— David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure…

— Swami Vivekananda

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he…

— H. L. Mencken

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure…

— Baltasar Gracian

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

— Anonymous

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these…

— Aristotle

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

— Owen Feltham

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal