Contrast Quote by Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

— Sigmund Freud

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

— Takashi Miike

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

— Robert Bateman

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

— James Norwood Pratt

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

— William Hazlitt

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is…

— John Ruskin

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

— Cynthia Rylant

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

— Anais Nin