1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.

A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.

Is there any pure pleasure like praying?

CHASUBLE: Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not?JACK: Oh yes.MISS PRISM: [Bitterly.] People who live entirely for pleasure usually are.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth.