Pleasure Quotes

Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

Plan for pleasure for each and every day.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

You change people by delight, by pleasure.

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.