Pleasure Quotes

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

~ Jude Morgan

Our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.

~ Marty Rubin

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.

~ Mary Balogh

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

~ Jane Austen

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.

~ Anthony Liccione

We commonly confuse love with the strong emotions most often associated with it, such as joy, attachment, lust, infatuation, pleasure, pain, fear, and hope, to name a few. But, love is not a feeling; love itself is an action. There are countless emotions and beliefs that can cause us to love. Love is the willing giving of self to another living being. Love is giving the life, time, energy, and resources that we would normally give or use for our self to someone else. Love is an action that enhances the well-being of another living being.

~ C W Newman

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t beg for treasure, create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions, build one for yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

So sweet and delicious do I become,when I am in bed with a manwho, I sense, loves and enjoys me,that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,so the knot of love, however tightit seemed before, is tied tighter still.

~ Veronica Franco

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

~ Christopher Marlowe

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.''Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.''When are we happy?''When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.''What is regret?''To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.''What is sorrow?''To long for the past.''What is the highest pleasure?''To hear a good story.

~ Vikram Chandra

a joy that hurts with sadnessa sadness that is pleasurablea pleasure full of terrora terror that excitesan excitement that calmsa calmness that frightens.

~ Aidan Chambers

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power.

~ Andrew Marvell

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?

~ Alysha Speer

The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

~ Sydney Smith

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

~ Anne Rice

The best traveler is one without a camera.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Early sweats make up later pleasures

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control.

~ Pravin Agarwal

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

~ Charles Baudelaire

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

~ Sunday Adelaja

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.

~ Michel De Montaigne

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

~ Criss Jami

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.

~ Mabel Iam

Be watchful of the dangers of pleasure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita