Pleasure Quotes · Page 101

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

— Charles A. Reich

“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course…

— Marcel Proust

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

— Andrew Vachss

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

— Sophocles

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

— Ricky Jay

“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to…

— William Wordsworth

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

— Isaac Watts

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with…

— Elia Suleiman

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to…

— Hermann Hesse

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner…

— Cyril Connolly

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything…

— Linda Lavin

There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up…

— Samuel Palmer

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is…

— Luther Burbank

I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being…

— Sylvia Boorstein

So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few…

— Martin Seligman

In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice… First, you make them happy by doing…

— Richard Laymon

“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an…

— Théophile Gautier

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was…

— Junot Diaz

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.…

— Sam Abell

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will…

— Henry David Thoreau

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,…

— Anais Nin

“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.”

— C.S. Lewis

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

— David Foster Wallace

It's always a pleasure to know clubs like Chelsea, with their ambitious owner, are interested in you.

— David Trezeguet

Have the courage to be different. Be a God pleasure, not a people pleasure .

— Melania

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

— Marquis de Sade

For a long while, I've wanted to be able to act and to be able to showcase that has been just an…

— Jacob Elordi

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top…

— Wes Borland

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

— Billy Collins

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

— John Piper

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

“Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.”

— Blaise Pascal

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

— Andre Kertesz

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

— Meat Loaf