Pleasure Quotes - Page 34

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Business first, then pleasure.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.