Pleasure Quotes

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.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

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

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

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.