Age Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

— Baruch Spinoza

I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people…

— Cus D'Amato

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him,…

— Giacomo Leopardi

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to…

— Samuel Johnson

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty,…

— George Santayana