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Quotes About Pleasure

To read without joy is stupid.
~ John Williams
Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.
~ John Wilmot
Joy makes the longest journey too short.
~ John Wooden
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
~ Xaviera Hollander
Sweetheart, no one needs coffee, I just like the taste. Almost as much as I like the way you taste.
~ Unknown
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
~ James Nasmyth
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.
~ Winston Churchill
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
~ Demonax
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection
~ Nir Eyal
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.
~ Unknown
If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Life is beautiful because it is a controlled yet chaotic dance of ups and downs where we are blessed with the ability to sense those pains and pleasures equally.
~ Unknown
Caring is sometimes allowing ourselves to be vulnerable towards hidden hurts in the pleasure of caring....
~ Unknown
Life is mixture of sunshine and rain, teardrops and laughter, pleasure and pain. Just remember, there was never a cloud that the sun couldnt shine through.
~ Unknown
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
~ Unknown
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.
~ Blaise Pascal
Life is like a cup of ice cream. Even the last drop of ice cream is sweet and enjoyed by one who really likes and loves it.
~ Unknown
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains.
~ Unknown