Pleasure Quotes
If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we've lost a lot.
The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...
This is not a "guilty pleasure" of mine, simply because I don't believe in "guilty" pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.
All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.
too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)
The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.
What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.
For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.
It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!
During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you.
Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.
Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.
... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...
Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping
A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.
Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.
... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.
I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.
