Pleasure Quotes · Page 100

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we…

— Alain de Botton

“Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No,”

— Jane Austen

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

— Charles Baxter

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

— Epicurus

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

— Anonymous

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

— Charles E. McKenzie

Thinking about you is my hobby, Missing you is my concern, Caring for you is my job, Loving you is my duty…

— Ritu Ghatourey

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his.…

— Wesley Morris

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of…

— Phyllis McGinley

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies…

— Anthony Bourdain

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him:…

— Brother Lawrence

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and…

— James Arness

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we…

— Richard Baxter

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

— John Green

What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests…

— Joseph Campbell

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for…

— Frederick Buechner

We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't…

— Philip Wollen

Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real…

— Richard Farson

Memories have two qualities - pain and pleasure, if you are recalling it alone then they might give you the feeling of…

— Anonymous

Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic…

— Amy Poehler

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the…

— Herbert Spencer

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

— Ian Mcewan

If you take the pleasure of risk away from me, I'd be better off going home.

— Marco Verratti

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

— Mia Maestro

The pleasure of love lasts for a moment, but the pain of love last for a lifetime.

— Anonymous

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

— George Bernard Shaw

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

— Martial

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you…

— Henry David Thoreau

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

— Michael Broadbent

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

— Clarence Darrow

“The desire (ichchha) to indulge in happiness that is temporary is referred to as spruha.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

— George Farquhar

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook…

— Epictetus