Pleasure Quotes

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Books are a languid pleasure.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

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I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.