Time Quote by Stephen Fry

“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.”

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.”

— Cheryl Richardson

“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s company, or…

— Marcel Proust

“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness…

— Wilfred Thesiger

“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.”

— Marcel Proust

“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy!”

— Annie Wood

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“No matter where we are and what we are subjected to, we will eventually settle into the new reality and try to find pleasure,…

— Wendy Walker

“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