“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief…”

“All who delight in the pleasures of the belly, exceeding all measure in eating and drinking and love, find that the pleasures are brief and last but a short while—only so long as they are eating and drinking—but the pains that come after are many and endure. The longing for the same things keeps ever returning, and whenever the objects of one's desire are realized forthwith the pleasure vanishes, and one has no further use for them. The pleasure is brief, and once more the need for the same things returns.”

“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”

“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

“everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow”

“In these three words: It is a Joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me, were shewed three heavens, as thus: For the joy, I understood the pleasure of the Father; and for the bliss, the worship of the Son; and for the endless satisfying, the Holy Ghost. The Father is pleased, the Son is worshipped, the Holy Ghost is satisfied.”

“It’s too cold. Away from the worlds, where a little pleasure costs a lot of pain. Don’t make trouble.”

“Oh, philosophers may sing
Of the troubles of a King,
But of pleasures there are many and of worries there are none;
And the culminating pleasure
That we treasure beyond measure
Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.”

“Of troubles know I none,
Of pleasures know I many —
I rove beneath the sun
Without a single penny.”