Pleasure Quotes · Page 37

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

— Jane Addams

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

— Imogen Heap

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

— Voltaire

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

— Anonymous

Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

— Rod Serling

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I get great creative pleasure from my work.

— Mick Hucknall

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

— Oscar Wilde

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

— Umar

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are…

— George Carey

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

— Philip Massinger

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

— William Stafford

My idea of romance... Is... Okay. I have an idea... I think my idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure.

— Harris Dickinson

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the…

— Marcel Proust

“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure…

— Orson Squire Fowler

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have…

— Kelly Slater

And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a…

— Suzanne Collins

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the…

— Julian Fellowes

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had…

— David Jeremiah

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from…

— William McFee

Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't…

— Bill Maher

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by…

— Sigmund Freud

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a…

— Richard Bach

Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of…

— John Stuart Mill

Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

— Luc de Clapiers

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

— Anonymous

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

— William Wordsworth

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

— Marge Piercy

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

— Albert Einstein

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

— Mason Cooley

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

— Ludwig Feuerbach