Pleasure Quotes - Page 3

Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

Bobby Darnell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...

Michel de Montaigne

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

Thomm Quackenbush

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

Elizabeth Gilbert

You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both.

Emmanuel Carrère

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Kingsley Amis

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

Barry Webster

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

Frances Wright

Take your pleasure seriously.

Charles Eames

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

Cristina Moracho

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Frances Wright

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

Manoj Arora

Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.

David Mitchell

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.

Marcel Proust

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

Bertrand Russell

The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you.

Sunday Adelaja

Most people desire comfort and pleasure.

Sunday Adelaja

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn

Saahil Prem

There is always pleasure in increase

Sunday Adelaja

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

Sadhguru

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Marty Rubin

Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures.

Marty Rubin

But whatever I am, I know that slipperiness isn't all of it. I know now that a studied evasiveness has its own limitations, its own ways of inhibiting certain forms of happiness and pleasure. The pleasure of abiding. The pleasure of insistence, persistence. The pleasure of obligation, the pleasure of dependency. The pleasures of ordinary devotion. The pleasure of recognizing that one may have to undergo the same realizations, write the same notes in the margin, return to the same themes in one's work, relearn the same emotional truths, write the same book over and over again--not because one is stupid or obstinate or incapable of change, but because such revisitations constitute a life.

Maggie Nelson

...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her.

Ayn Rand

Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

jihad eltabey

Aw... don’t be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.

Dr Susan Block

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

Dean Koontz

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.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Nicolas Chamfort

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.

Matthew Donnelly

Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for, the face shatters, every time.

Andrew Holleran

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.

Marquis de Sade

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

Horace

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

Marcel Proust

... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy.

Marcel Proust

Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente

To live without a body!

Joubert

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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

Diogenes Laërtius

Feast is fun.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Party is pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

Orrin Woodward

The smell of the sea pleased him so much that he wanted one day to take it in, pure and unadulterated, in such quantities that he could get drunk on it. And later, when he learned from stories how large the sea is and that you can sail upon it in ships fit days on end without ever seeing land, nothing pleased him more than the image of himself shutting high up in the crow's nest of the foremost mast on such ship, gliding on through the endless shell of the sea -- which really was no smell, but a breath, an exhilaration of breath, the end of all smells -- dissolving with pleasure in that breath.

Patrick Süskind

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of Liberation, at which there is no more suffering. That’s genuine, lasting happiness. True happiness relates more to the mind and heart. Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it’s there, the next day it may not be.

Dalai Lama XIV

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

James C. Dobson

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolò Machiavelli

If my belief in the God-force-principle-thing had faltered from time to time, it was completely reaffirmed that morning when I considered how completely brilliant a creation was fermentation. From decay came a pleasure sublime enough to keep decay at bay. Only for a few minutes, perhaps, but some minutes are like no others.

Tony Hendra

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.

Billy Graham

There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

Marty Rubin

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Walter Bagehot

Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.

Mark Lawrence

If one proceeds philosophically before proceeding poetically, and this is central to the philosopher, pleasure is crushed, But if one begins by having pleasure, it is like knowing how to swim: one never forgets it [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989].

Hélène Cixous

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

Sunday Adelaja

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

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?

Robert Greene

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