Being Quote by Margaret Drabble

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is…

— Marquis de Sade

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

— Willard Gaylin

Displays of pleasure Are masked by your misery…Lie to me

— Godsmack

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

— Agnes Repplier

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

“Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.”

— Dirk Wittenborn

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black