Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Little, Mary

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aristotle

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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

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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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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Voltaire

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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

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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

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Seneca

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Charron, Pierre

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Moliere

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

Bible

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle