Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.