Quote by Sam Sax Download Open image ““there must be something else worth praising besides pleasure & destruction”” — Sam Sax ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.” — Sara Daigle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“& he watches each muscle volt into place. the surgeon became the surgeon after years of opening books & making sense of their contents” — sam sax Copy Share Image
“his laugh a memory so liquid i’ll hear it when anyone opens a window to scare the birds” — Sam Sax Copy Share Image
“of course i know i’m going to die. until then i’m attempting only to stave off the flies. i’m trading what’s left of my… — Sam Sax Copy Share Image
“if you look close at the process of fermentation you’ll see tiny animals destroying the living body until it’s transformed into something more volatile” — Sam Sax Copy Share Image
