Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and… — Allan Bloom
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. — William James
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Pauline Kael
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear. — Jean de La Fontaine
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. — Jean de La Fontaine
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that… — Augustus
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. — E. L. James
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. — Margaret Fuller
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. — Robert Louis Stevenson
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. — Robert A. Heinlein
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of… — Thomas M. Disch
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge… — Bernard Malamud
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason… — Charles Hodge
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other… — Roland Barthes
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent,… — Jay McInerney
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but… — Democritus
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works;… — Richard Baxter

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