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Pleasure

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



Best Quotes about Pleasure

1.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius

2.
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Virgil

3.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise

4.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel

6.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Duganne, Augustine J.

7.
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

8.
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

9.
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Branden, Nathaniel

10.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel

11.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Bible

12.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Young

13.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Bennett, Arnold

14.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato

15.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Franklin, Benjamin

16.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Goldsmith, Oliver

17.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh

18.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Warner, Marina

19.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter

20.
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Loos, Anita

21.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges

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

24.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire

26.
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond

27.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert

28.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Lewis, C. S.

29.
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

30.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Buffett, Warren

31.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous

32.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero, Marcus T.

34.
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

35.
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

36.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca

37.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre

38.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Drabble, Margaret

39.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Vaneigem, Raoul

40.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Freud, Sigmund

41.
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

42.
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

43.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Antrim, Minna

44.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Proverb

45.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

46.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Chesterfield, Lord

47.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Chinese

48.
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

49.
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De


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