Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.” — Tania Elizabeth Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening. — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Memories have two qualities - pain and pleasure, if you are recalling it alone then they might give you the feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. — Democritus Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform. — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
