Degrees Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot…

— Sigmund Freud

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

— Publilius Syrus

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

— Philip Sidney

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

Usually you're forced to do what necessity demands, and pleasure is a luxury.

— Mike Connors

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

When the act of pursuit is complete, pleasure shows it's untamed power.

— Denise Clark

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates