Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Charron, Pierre

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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

Lewis, C. S.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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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

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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

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

Moliere

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

Charron, Pierre

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Loos, Anita

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Lucretius

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bonnard, Pierre

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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.

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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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

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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

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Seneca

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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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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina