Quotes About Pleasure

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]