Berlin Quote by Savannah Page

“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

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

— Emile Peynaud

“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

“Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A single act of carelessness leads to the eternal loss of beauty”

— Forbidden City Sign Writer

“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

“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating…

— Sam Harris

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

“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

“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.”

— Raymond Radiguet

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson