Quote by Theodor Adorno

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

— Kevin Young

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

— Rajneesh

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we…

— Roland Barthes

“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

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

— Philip Yancey

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on…

— Anonymous

When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as…

— Epicurus

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you…

— Anonymous

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson