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Pleasure

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
- Barthes, Roland
Pleasure Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pleasure

1.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Bonnard, Pierre

2.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Buffett, Warren

3.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

4.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Vaneigem, Raoul

5.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Lewis, C. S.

6.
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel

7.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Franklin, Benjamin

8.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Young

9.
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond

10.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire

11.
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert

13.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire

14.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
Buxton, Charles

15.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

16.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Proverb

17.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

18.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius

19.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Edison, Thomas A.

20.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter

21.
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

22.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Little, Mary

23.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato

24.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre

25.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous

26.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Goldsmith, Oliver

28.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Warner, Marina

29.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Duganne, Augustine J.

30.
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
Traherne, Thomas

31.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Wilde, Oscar

32.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Mencken, H. L.

33.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Loos, Anita

34.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius

35.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise

36.
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Jerrold, Douglas William

37.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Chinese

38.
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Devi, Sri Sarada

39.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
Keats, John

40.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges

41.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
Butler, Samuel

42.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Barthes, Roland

44.
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
Selden, John

45.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca

46.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

47.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Donne, John

48.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh

49.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Addison, Joseph

50.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Clinton, De Witt


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