1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity?How could she have felt like that without love?Was love essential?Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life?If it did, it was too late now for her to find it.Must she make do with this instead, then?Only this?Pleasure without love?

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.Suddenly, you know you are alive.

Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as a science of sin has promoted sin. Now, in the same way, I believe that sensuality as a study of worthiness will fill the world with exorbitant joy and pleasure.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Joy is like air. We take it for granted, until it's not there. Then we know, desperately, how much it is needed

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.