Pleasure Quotes

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

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

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.