“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?” HumansStoriesFeelingsPleasureStrangeInvolvedAccountsGhostOur LoveCravingGhost Stories Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.” MindTwoBodyLyingEvilPleasureDrinkLeavingOperationsFacultyPlusCravingInitialsAlcoholismMind And BodyDisillusionDeteriorationDemoralizingTrue Evil Author:Caitlin Thomas
“The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.” HumansActionJoyWaterNaturalHuman BeingsPleasureExistenceFireMaterialsErasColourIndispensableCravingRaw MaterialsWater And Fire Author:Fernand Leger
“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?” IfsLooksFeelingsPainFoundPleasureSecretCapableMachinesRingsStuckInsaneCuresWheelsBellsWithin YouDefectsCravingPain And PleasureMeaning LifeStovesLiving AloneAlacrity Book:Kingsor's Last Summer Source: Kingsor's Last Summer
“Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.” TryingProblemPleasureContentmentCraving Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar