Explanation Quote by Milan Kundera

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and…

— Aristotle

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

— Margaret Drabble

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

— Penelope Wilton

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

— Adolf Hitler

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been…

— Maude Royden

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

— Stanislaw Lem

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

— Viktor E. Frankl

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we…

— David Whyte

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for…

— Charles Spurgeon

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux