Pleasure Quotes

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.