Pleasure Quotes

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.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

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.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

There is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.