Pleasure Quotes

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.