Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it… — Terry Rossio
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… — Camille Paglia
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. — William Wordsworth
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. — Pope Benedict XVI
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run… — Henry Ford
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances… — Thomas Gray
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and… — James Hillman
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material… — St. Catherine of Siena
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of… — Unknown Author
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars.… — Sathya Sai Baba
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but… — David Berg
Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success… — Jennifer James
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much… — Dorothy Stang
Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care… — Judi Dench
Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our… — Tarthang Tulku
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,… — Ruth Pitter

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