Pleasure Principle Quotes

“Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.”
― John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse

“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The worst thing about life is that, after the extremely rare nondual awakening, mere pleasure is the best thing that you can get out of it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They who have gone beyond the duality of pain and pleasure have nothing to escape or chase.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pleasure and pain are often each other’s seed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are greatly enslaved by how we do not want and how we want to feel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even cruel acts such as those that were committed by the Ku Klux Klan, rapists, and the Nazis fall under the umbrella of ‘the pursuit of happiness’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I'm a sullen strategist who, having never won a battle, has learned to derive pleasure from mapping out the details of his inevitable retreat on the eve of each new engagement.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet