Every man Quote by Robert Silverberg

“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined…

— Gilbert Murray

“Man did not give himself the taste for the infinite and the love of what is immortal. These sublime instincts are not born of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations, or drawn…

— Baron d'Holbach

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit”

— Brian McNaughton

“It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may…

— Marquis de Sade

“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.”

— Dostoyevsky

“For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the…

— Richard Llewellyn

“One has to love in his life time to feel the real pain and pleasure”

— Jitendra Anne