Pleasure Quotes

4661 Pleasure quotes by 2495 unique authors

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. — Minna Antrim
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are… — Roland Barthes
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not… — Lord Byron
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. — John Donne
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Nicolas Chamfort
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets… — H. L. Mencken
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do… — Samuel Pepys
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. — Raoul Vaneigem
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. — Samuel Johnson
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. — Oliver Goldsmith
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for… — Douglas William Jerrold
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. — Oscar Wilde
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the… — Thomas Traherne
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. — C.S. Lewis
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. — Lucretius
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Michel de Montaigne
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. — Blaise Pascal
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire… — John Keats

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