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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.