Pleasure Quotes

High heels? Painful pleasure.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

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

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seem...

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

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

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and th...

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl...

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence...

Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the...

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that so...

...up to no good—and pleased about it.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all ...

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repent...

If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because ...

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I...

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasur...

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for...

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my gu...

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an ent...

... 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.

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life ...

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversi...

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates a...

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of...

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on w...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glo...

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possib...

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things ar...

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any d...

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expe...

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year tha...

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta...

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have ther...

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure pr...

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to ...

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word...

Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing...

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable bu...

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both not...

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every g...

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some swee...

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not kno...

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times wi...

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in c...

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for sol...

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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...