Faults Quote by Voltaire

“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

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...

— Thomas Carlyle

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

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

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

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

— Sherri L. King

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

— Epicurus

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne