Famous quotes containing the word enjoyment:
“The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give usand so, what has kept it going up to nowlies in everyones right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Fathers palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“But there is nothing unmixt in this world; and some of the gravest of our divines have carried it so far as to affirm, that enjoyment itself was attended even with a sighand that the greatest they knew of, terminated in a general way, in little better than a convulsion.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)