Pleasure Quotes

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

One always finds time for what one likes.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

God made all pleasures innocent.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.