1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

Pain and pleasure are a part of everyone's experience: one is not truer than the other.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.

Experience is the pain that brings pleasure.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts.