Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about 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

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Drabble, Margaret

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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

Seneca

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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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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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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

Moliere

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Voltaire

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Lucretius

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous