Pleasure Quotes

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

Pain, Cannot, Sensitive

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Greatest, Others

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Faults, Noticing

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

Hope, Judge, Others

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Evil, Away

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain, End, Through

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love, True, Giving

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne

Alone, Mind, Thought

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone, Special, Moment

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

Love, Pain, Live

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

Greatest, Path, Free

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reading, Cow, Brute

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Life, Work, Joy

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Future, Mind

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Life, Pain, Action

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

Tired, Genuine, Property

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Live, Wish

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Forward, Enjoy, Looking

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler

Great, Fool, Yourself

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

Die, Wanted, Few

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain, Sacrifice, Order

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck

Death, Live, Thought

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Cat Stevens

Allah, Everything

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Health, Men

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sex, Woman, Words

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

Music, Greatest, Writing

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

Give, Two, Though

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

Few, Less, Excitement

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Success, Another

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

Bring, Bottom, Pearls

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Pleasure Definition

Booker T. Washington

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us