"Few pleasures there are indeed without an..." - Quote by Helen Keller
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
More by Helen Keller
“Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
More on Experience
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.”
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”
“Live it up so you can write it down.”
More on Pleasure
“As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.”
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”
“When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.”