And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Don't exchange your greatest future for some shortest pleasures of this moment. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The stress of not allowing yourself life's guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging. — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life,… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“You can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. — Umar Copy Share Image
“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they? — Colin Beavan Copy Share Image
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image