Pleasure Quotes

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Pope John Paul II

Lord Byron

Søren Kierkegaard

Johannes Kepler

Jane Austen

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Friedrich Schleiermacher

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

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

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

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

Søren Kierkegaard

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.

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

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

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George F. Kennan

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

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

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.

Henri Poincaré

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Charles Baudelaire

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

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

William Ernest Henley

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories." Still I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air—the indulging in waking dreams—the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents. My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it

Moses Mendelssohn

I get a fine, warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.