Francois Fenelon Quotes

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.