Spirituality Quote by Seneca

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

— George Eliot

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“In the pursuit of temporary happiness of the mind, we lose the eternal bliss of the Soul.”

— Shiva Negi

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pleasure is no longer empty and pain is no longer deadly when God is the transcending reason for all of it.”

— Sara Daigle

“The soul is the body’s vanity and pleasure as long as the body’s in good health, but it’s also the urge to escape from…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.”

— W.B. Yeats

“..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the…

— Errol R. Fish

“Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!”

— Paul Verlaine

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“As such he cannot experience the nature of the soul. ...”

— Swami Vivekananda