Pleasure Loss Quotes

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.