1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.

Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

There are no sinful pleasures, only forbidden ones.

The soul's joys are greater than the heart's pleasures.

People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.