Death Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Choosing not to enjoy the moments meant for joy doesn't spare you from the suffering that may follow. The time you let slip away…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Find joy in the extinction of desires.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what limit is…

— Seneca

“Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another’s need and sacrifice for it, we…

— Fulton Sheen

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

— Thomas Merton

“We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.”

— Natalie Brenner

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and…

— Noah Levine

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche