“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we… — David Belle Copy Share Image
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Maturity is the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they… — Jane Grey Copy Share Image
Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body. — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
