Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Charron, Pierre

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Lewis, C. S.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Lucretius

11.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Bataille, Georges

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

22.

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

23.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Moliere

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

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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

31.

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

Little, Mary

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

38.

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

Seneca

39.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

43.

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

44.

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balzac, Honore De

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.