Pleasure Quotes And Sayings

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“…when we say we’re looking for a spiritual adviser, we’re really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”
– Anne Micheals

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
– C.S. Lewis

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam’d of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat’ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”
– John Milton

“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
– Criss Jami

“He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.”
– Kitty Thomads

“Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.”
– Alan Wilson Watts

“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.”
– Steven Marboli

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”
– Paul Auster

“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
– Giacomo Casanova

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
– Julian Barnes

“The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading”
– Vladimir Nabokov

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”
– Criss Jami

“You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.”
– Lawrence Durrell

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”
– Ernest Dowson

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please me.”
– William Shakespeare

“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons.”
– Roman Payne

“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.”
– Elizabeth Berg

“It is true, Monsieur,” Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, “that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one’s self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.”
– Rachilde

“The excess of pleasure is pain”
– Almeida Garrett

“The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.”
– Harold Norse

“Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round”
– Marcellus Emants

“The main question to a novel is — did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not — story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”
– Sydney Smith

“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
– Fanny Burney

“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
– Sigmund Freud

“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”
– Ann Brashares

“It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.”
– Pierre Chorderlos de Laclos

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