Pleasure Quotes · Page 82

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

— Harris Dickinson

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

— David Attenborough

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

— J. M. Coetzee

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

— Aldous Huxley

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

— Russell Baker

Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days…

— Ambrose Bierce

“This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value…

— Emmanuel Aghado

The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those…

— Anonymous

“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine…

— Isabel Fonseca

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success…

— John Burroughs

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs,…

— Alex James

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure…

— Celia Thaxter

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going…

— Susan Sontag

The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and…

— Max Horkheimer

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.…

— Ayn Rand

“You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of…

— Abraham Verghese

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it…

— Barbara Holland

And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became…

— Philip Sington

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.…

— Orson Scott Card

...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing…

— Anonymous

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

— Judith Viorst

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

— George Bernard Shaw

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

— Colin Beavan

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

— W. H. Auden

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure

— Ace Antonio Hall

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

— Jean Paul

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

— John Milton

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

— Ben Jonson

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

— Donald Trump

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

— David Lynch

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made…

— Paul Theroux