Comfort Quote by Susanna Clarke

“What nobility of feeling!” he cried. “To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! Well, it is a thing, I confess,…

— Susanna Clarke

That's the best feeling ever, when you sacrifice and you realize in the end that it was worth it.

— Rodney Hood

“people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.”

— Dan Ariely

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

— Michael Pollan

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

— Samuel Johnson

“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous…

— Marquis de Sade

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me,…

— Susanna Clarke

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The army is the true nobility of our country.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

— Ayn Rand