1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

The traditional meaning of consent means agreeing to something someone else wants: “I consent to X.” In this meaning, you “give consent” or “get consent”. I’d like to expand the definition and think of consent as being an agreement that two or more people come up with together. You don’t give consent, you arrive at consent—together.

Both pain and pleasure pull you deeper into the illusion of Maya (Space-Time). But voluntary pain (like climbing a hill to reach a temple) and conscious pleasure (Tantra sex) take you inward.

Beautiful words delight me, but I don't believe in them.

Such is the misfortune of the human condition that pain is our most lovely sentiment; pleasure affects us less than pain and hardly ever suffices to make up to us for it. In vain did some philosophers assert, while suppressing their groans in the midst of sufferings, that pain was not an evil at all. In vain did others place supreme happiness in sensuality—of which they nevertheless deprived themselves through fear of its consequences.

Pain destroys mere pleasure.

It is better to be lovers of purity than lovers of pleasure.

...what is cruelty but the giving of pain in the taking of pleasure?

The partner of pleasure is pain.Bliss has no opposite.In bliss, pain and pleasure are one.

There is neither pleasure nor pain, only purity.