Pleasure Quotes

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Seneca the Younger
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Helen Keller
- Book
- Eye
- Ears

For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.

Elizabeth Wein
- Pleasure
- Gift
- I Remember
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Friend
- Pleasure
- Pressure
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.

Nicholas Grimald
- Work
- Pain
- Pleasure
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Seneca the Younger
- Artist
- Painting
- Greater
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Gautama Buddha
- Joy
- Pleasure
- Vain
It was a pleasure to burn.

Ray Bradbury
- Pleasure