Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

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

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.