Famous quotes containing the words heart asks, heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“The Heart asks Pleasure—first—
And then—Excuse from Pain—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield to them in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)