1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

If one proceeds philosophically before proceeding poetically, and this is central to the philosopher, pleasure is crushed, But if one begins by having pleasure, it is like knowing how to swim: one never forgets it [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989].

Aw... don’t be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.