It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“Let me give you this pleasure. I want nothing more than to see you come apart.” — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
“I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to… — Starley Ard Copy Share Image
“The way to be happy is to take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in imagining that… — Toby Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness,… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
