Success, if I simply gave it to you, you wouldn’t have the pleasure of taking it.

Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn’t highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with humiliation, but which almost is humiliation. Men who have escaped death by a...

Noelle slid up Rachel’s body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. “Ace has to make his choice,” she murmured, stroking Rachel’s lips. “He doesn’t get to lock you away from...

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

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

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the...

I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to...

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

This beautiful body, sweetness? It’s made for pleasure. It’s singing to me, telling me what it wants and needs. Those other idiots you were with weren’t fuckin listening.

This means even more to me socially than artistically. It’s just a pleasure to be a part of this movie and I can’t even believe I’ve got this for it.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

It’s precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine?

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won’t see it often.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the...

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is...

And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different...

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

I can understand where he’s coming from… I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we’re nothing more...

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere with body signaling (painkillers, anesthetics), the brain receives a distorted view of what the body state really...

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one….This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation,...

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the...

When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us the Poise to hold on. When we come across failure, He installs back...

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure – as a mere automaton of duty?

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: “You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand...

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

We are all the fruits of pleasure’s toil.

God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,