Pleasure Quotes
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.
Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure.
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.
Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.
