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Quotes About Pleasure

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
~ William Hazlitt
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.
~ Armond White
Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.
~ John Keats
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
~ Nigella Lawson
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
~ Anthony Trollope
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.
~ James Hillman
As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing
~ Tony Fernandes
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
~ Bertrand Russell
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
~ Epictetus
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
~ C. S. Lewis
I like it where I stand. This is fun.
~ Esther Hicks
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
~ Samuel Johnson
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.
~ Leigh Hunt
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
~ Don Roff
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
~ Alasdair Gray
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
~ Joe Hill, Horns
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
~ Richard Feynman