Bigger picture Quote by Rakesh Ranjan

“There comes a point when you stop thinking of you playing the game, and you simply become a part of – and merge into…

— H.M. Forester

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how…

— Michel de Montaigne

“If life is a game, and we forget how to play games... what chance do we have of succeeding?”

— Terry Schott

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

— Emile Peynaud

“I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their…

— Clyde Dsouza

“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

“in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment. All this is passing before our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You really have spent too long amongst dead things and sand. People misbehave, Ben. People do … wicked things, in the name of pursuing…

— Jae T. Jaggart

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille

“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight. We lose our…

— Tony Reinke

“...but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, and that we all lose everything…

— Donna Tartt

“this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play…

— Clarence Darrow