Quotes About Pleasure

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

The only guilty pleasure I have is pasta.

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.