Pleasure Quotes

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Jane Austen

Lord Byron

Pope John Paul II

Johannes Kepler

Søren Kierkegaard

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thomas Aquinas

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Søren Kierkegaard

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

William Banting

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Joseph de Maistre

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

G. I. Gurdjieff

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

William Ernest Henley

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Martin Van Buren

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Chauncey Wright

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille