Delightful Quote by Georges Bataille

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly…

— Rose Macaulay

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison…

— Cassandra Clare

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

— Anonymous

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton