Pleasure Quotes
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Ezra Taft Benson
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My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.
Cary Fukunaga
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The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
Stephen Greenblatt
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Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.
William Shakespeare
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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
Angela Thirkell
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather
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The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.
James Boswell
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Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.
Elisabeth Marbury
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As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
Erin McKeown
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
Emil Cioran
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That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.
Karen Katafiasz
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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
Aristotle
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
Richard Strauss
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
William Wordsworth
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
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You, methinks you think you love me well;
For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
But work as vassal to the larger love,
That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.
Cecil Balmond
