Pleasure Quotes

Aw... don’t be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.

~ Dr Susan Block

...up to no good—and pleased about it.

~ Dean Koontz

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for, the face shatters, every time.

~ Andrew Holleran

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.

~ Marquis De Sade

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

~ Horace

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

~ Marcel Proust

... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy.

~ Marcel Proust

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

~ Marcel Proust

Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

~ Bobby Darnell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

~ Bertrand Russell

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...

~ Michel De Montaigne

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both.

~ Emmanuel Carrère

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

~ Kingsley Amis

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

~ Barry Webster

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

~ Frances Wright

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

~ Cristina Moracho

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

~ Frances Wright

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

~ Manoj Arora

Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.

~ David Mitchell

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.

~ Marcel Proust

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

~ Bertrand Russell

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

~ Thomas À Kempis

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

I wonder if it is the same for women, whether women always feel this pain when they are fucked? Or is it only in sodomy that pain and pleasure are so linked, so inextricable?

~ Christos Tsiolkas

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

~ Marty Rubin

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one’s own.

~ Awdhesh Singh

...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

~ Kapka Kassabova

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

~ Marcel Proust

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

~ William Wordsworth

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.

~ Pema Chödrön

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.

~ Gustave Flaubert