Accepting Quote by Jack Gilbert

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on…

— Anonymous

“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order…

— Tom Robbins

“Delight is God’s why behind the justice, righteousness, and steadfast love He practices. It’s not out of frustration or obligation, but delight.”

— Jessica Nicholas

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

— John Tillotson

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having…

— Voltaire

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

— Simone Weil

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

— Benjamin Franklin

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