1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, you just enjoy it. No sense feeling guilty about it.

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us.