Pleasure Quotes
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James -
Did you ever say "yes" to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.
Marshall Field -
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
William Cowper -
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden -
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
Charles Nodier -
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
Honore de Balzac -
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
George Washington
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The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
Beatrice M. Hinkle -
If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Jimmy Buffett -
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok -
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
Sebastian Faulks -
Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.
Marianne Williamson -
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
Ace Antonio Hall -
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
William Hazlitt -
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
Abu Nuwas -
The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.
James Boswell -
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Helen Keller
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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
William Wordsworth -
Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.
Elena Ferrante -
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Willem Dafoe -
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe