1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Nothing that makes one hard is wicked and the only crime in the world is to refuse oneself that pleasure.

God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our design. Psalm 34:8 reads, “Taste and see that the LORD is good.

It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

Vintage wine and alehouse beer" is how Bodley likes to put it. "In the pursuit of pleasure, both have their place.

That life may be in fact meaningless in no way detracts from its pleasures or beauty.

And then beautiful things grow rich with the emotion that they have aroused in succeeding generations. That is why old things are more beautiful than modern. The Ode on a GrecianUrn is more lovely now than when it was written, because for a hundred years lovers have read it and the sick at heart taken comfort in its lines.

The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

At this stage, some people might advise me to focus on pleasure and avoid any kind of pain—But where can we hide from pain when it finds us unprepared?