1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again.

Oh, keep your warnings and your fears for those giddy women who call themselves women of feeling, whose heated imaginations persuade them that nature has placed their senses in their heads; who, having never thought about it, invariably confuse love with a lover; who, with their stupid delusions, imagine that the man with whom they have found pleasure is pleasure's only source; and, like all the superstitious, accord that faith and respect to the priest which is due to only the divinity.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

إنما اللذة نشيد من أناشيد الحريةو لكنها ليست الحريةو هي أزهار رغباتكمو ليست الثمارو هي غور يتطلع إلى القمةو ليست الغور و لا القمةو هي الطائر المقفوص و قد بسط جناحيهو لكنها ليست الأجنحة التي تلف الفضاء

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.