Pleasure Quotes
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.
If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.
Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.