Addict Quote by Sov8840

“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one and move…

— Sov8840

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases…

— Alex Campbell

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

— Confucius

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

— Leigh Hunt

Pleasure must be found in study.

— Paul Cezanne

“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s…

— Rebecca Mead

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Takashi Miike

“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,…

— David Graeber

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of…

— William T. Vollmann