1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

A heart was a curious thing. So contradictory. The way it ached in both good and bad ways. The way it leapt with joy and ceased with sorrow. It could beat madly and wildly during both pleasure and pain.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.

A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is no intention here below. Is there any intention anywhere?

It would be impossible for any individual to accept the feelings, or emotions of temptation without wishing to gain something great in return.