Quotes About Pleasure

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Happiness is egotistical.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Happiness is not the portion of man.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.