Blessed Quote by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“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

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

— Ovid

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

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert

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

— Henry Suso

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

— Richard Steele

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

Love not Pleasure; love God.

— Thomas Carlyle