1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

The pleasure you give is returned in the pleasure you receive.

Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.

Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

Why should love be anything but a pleasure?

I love weaving a story and spinning it around with my pen.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

It is a real art to combine different types of pleasure and create a super pleasure, like reading a nice book inside a hot bathtub in an open air while the sun is setting!

I have just one selfish goal – to take what’s mine while receiving as much pleasure as possible.