Quotes About Pleasure

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Life is too short to be on a diet.

Enjoy the Life.. until the Energy is in your Life...

Those who love to live enjoy the beauty of life.

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.

I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do– eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.