Books Quote by Martin Amis

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else,…

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

— Irving Stone

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always…

— Epicurus

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker,…

— Carol Gilligan

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting…

— Sigmund Freud

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

— Euripides

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another.…

— Anonymous

Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Oscar Wilde