1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

The pleasure of discovery begins with a prayer.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company.

Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.