Pleasure Quotes

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

How much pleasure can you stand?

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.