Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. — Marina Warner
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for… — Nathaniel Branden
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year… — Charles Dickens
Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path.… — Wayne Dyer
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as… — Rich Mullins
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.… — Samuel Johnson
You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory. — Beth Moore
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is… — Thomas Carlyle
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter… — Jeanette Winterson
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca the Younger
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be… — Coventry Patmore
I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue.… — Unknown Author
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the… — Susan Warner
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure,… — Alexis Carrel
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough
The greatest pleasure in life is love. — William Temple
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. — James Cook

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