Pleasure Quotes And Sayings

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“Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.”
– Tahir Shah

“The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”
– John Stuart Mill

“It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
– Peter Kreeft

“He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with humiliation, but which almost is humiliation. Men who have escaped death by a hair have it, and men whose love is returned by a woman unexpectedly, and men whose sins are forgiven them. Everything his eye fell on it feasted on, not aesthetically, but with a plain, jolly appetite as of a boy eating buns. He relished the squareness of the houses; he liked their clean angles as if he had just cut them with a knife. The lit squares of the shop windows excited him as the young are excited by the lit stage of some promising pantomime. He happened to see in one shop which projected with a bulging bravery on to the pavement some square tins of potted meat, and it seemed like a hint of a hundred hilarious high teas in a hundred streets of the world. He was, perhaps, the happiest of all the children of men. For in that unendurable instant when he hung, half slipping, to the ball of St. Paul’s, the whole universe had been destroyed and re-created.”
– G.K> Chesterton

“I wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.
– Jarod Kintz

“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
– Galen Beckett

“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”
– Jude Morgan

“A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)”
– WendellBerry

“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is no intention here below. Is there any intention anywhere?”
– John Davidson

“Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.”
– T.C. Boyle

“..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.”
– Eric Weiner

“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”
– Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

“If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we’ve lost a lot.”
– Savannah Page

“If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.
– Jarod Kintz

“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”
– Criss Jami

“You see, when you’re excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.”
– Cherise Sinclair

“To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure – gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, ‘You’re beautiful’ – these are the tokens of love that women cherish.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
– G.I. Gurdjieff

“It’s precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.”
– John Crowley

“… our country in general assumes that “the pursuit of happiness” really means “the pursuit of pleasure” and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person’s expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener.”
– Alexander Lowen

“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”
– Louis Aragon

“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”
– Publius Syrus

“Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.”
– Philip Yancey

“Men seek but one thing in life – their pleasure.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche. I’m like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

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