Pleasure Quotes

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing a...

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, meas...

I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus," I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true ...

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx th...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the ...

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...

Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You travel...

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, a...

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not parti...

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

Happiness is pleasure without regret

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But...

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experien...

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the ple...

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon ...

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, ...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling t...

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, ...

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separat...

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it woul...

... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the ple...

Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that eve...

Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that...

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should hav...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments whi...

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his se...

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek ...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken......

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the r...

When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that ...

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flute...

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do...

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleas...

JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered wit...

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you sho...

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup hold...

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky,...

Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, o...

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the ...

I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of...

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pl...

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with...

Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do lo...

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom...

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom...

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time....

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in ...

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be...

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowi...

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little...

It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to purs...

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quic...

Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,Yo...

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...