Pleasure Quotes

The pleasure is our choice.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

Big voice, big heart - Mary Ellen Wessels is a pleasure to hear.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.