Love Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which…

— G.K. Chesterton

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

— Oscar Wilde

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim to pursue…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The small pleasures often hold the power to transform our day and infuse them with cheerful radiance.”

— Ramona I

“Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses and turn…

— Germaine Greer

“The deep darkness of good-natured humans, which causes the noble things of humanity to spoil—the affection for a worn-out, grimy lifestyle, the quarrels between…

— Sakyo Komatsu

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

— Oscar Wilde

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all…

— Tiffany Madison

“I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority…

— Susan Sontag

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey