Pleasure Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.