My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding…

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

— Darren Criss

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

— Geshe Sonam

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

— John Bunyan

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

— Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white,…

— Robert Burns

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we…

— Marcel Proust

“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”

— Inglath Cooper

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

— Ken Bruen

I take refuge in my books.

— Julia Ward Howe

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary…

— Dax Shepard

“These are the little things that people should really appreciate, simple pleasures.”

— Julianna Baggott

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

— Ilona Andrews

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

— Willie Stargell