Definitions Quote by Gertrude Stein

Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.

— Brené Brown

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

— Henry Suso

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

— John D. Rockefeller

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

— Stendhal

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

— Mary Astell