Top Pleasure Quotes

It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Pleasure Definition

(n.) The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.

(n.) Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.

(n.) What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.

(n.) That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.

(v. t.) To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.

(v. i.) To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.

Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you from obta...

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something els...

A good woman is a pleasured treasure.

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleas...

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.