Pleasure Quotes

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different fromanother than from himself at different times.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming.

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

These violent delights have violent ends.

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

All change is nothing but a decision. All decisions are controlled by what we link to pain and pleasure.

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.