Crime Quote by Marquis de Sade

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we…

— Roland Barthes

When the act of pursuit is complete, pleasure shows it's untamed power.

— Denise Clark

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

— Alan Watts

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a…

— Wilhelm Reich

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Our ability to surrender in life is directly related to the amount of peace and fulfillment we experience.”

— Mike Robbins

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender”

— Thomas Kitty

“The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in…

— Anonymous