“Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.” PeopleGivingPleasurePowerfulStruggleTerribleGive MeTragedyFoolishEnjoymentCapabilityAccusedMerryLife StruggleClamorExperiencing Something Author:August Strindberg
“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.” PeopleHappensCertainFallPleasureWonderTerribleWickedAscentGiddy Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.” WorldWayHardPleasureThis WorldTerribleConsequenceEndurePainfulRingsAttractivePleasantSensationsContemplatingWormsScratchesItching Author:Ramakrishna
“I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.” RealShowsPleasureTvsTerribleTasteGuiltyTv ShowsHousewifeGuilty PleasureBravoReal Housewives Author:Grace Helbig
“A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.” WellsLooksMayMeanLittlesDoeEnoughRealitySeemsAgePleasureSunTerribleSorrowBeatsSpringEternityTablesWineShiningMereProsperitySensesStreamsSunshineFragmentsInsufficientWitheredGarlandsSun ShinesGreat ChangeSpring TimeJubileeTinsel Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.” WritingPleasureStruggleTerribleBurden Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.” WorldMayDoeWholeHandsEyePainForcePleasureCommonSadnessTerribleSorrowSadGoldProsperityWoundsWhole WorldSensitiveComparisonRoughGrainBeatenLeafsExquisiteCoarseChroniclesVibrate Book:De profundus Source: De profundus
“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.” KnowsWayWritingI CanUseNamesPleasureGriefDestinyTerribleDespairFamiliarExcitementTraitsRulersAlmightyOur DestinyYour DestinyParalysisNumbing Author:Margo Jefferson