Quotes About Pleasure

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other; it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other; it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.

Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it