Mortification Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Mortification is made up of small conquests, such as smiling at those who annoy us, denying the body some superfluous fancy, getting accustomed to…

— Francis Fernandez

“In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.”

— Andrew J. Bacevich

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

— John Owen

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.”

— Folco Portinari

“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

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for…

— Charles Spurgeon

“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.”

— Seneca

“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

“Death and pleasure we experience asymptotically. We spend much time working upward on the slope, and most people only sometimes approach the lines of…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“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