Pleasure
Quotes - A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered
“When,
therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures
of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who
are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from
pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous
drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish
and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but
sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and
banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the
spirit.”
―
Epicurus
“Go
where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.”
―
Anne Rice
“Learning
to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning
pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over
frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume;
closing with a solid thump.”
―
John Crowley, Little, Big
“Before
the beginning of years
There
came to the making of man
Time,
with a gift of tears;
Grief,
with a glass that ran;
Pleasure,
with pain for leaven;
Summer,
with flowers that fell;
Remembrance,
fallen from heaven,
And
madness risen from hell;
Strength
without hands to smite;
Love
that endures for a breath;
Night,
the shadow of light,
And
Life, the shadow of death.”
―
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon
“The
' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the
responsibility of Consciousness.”
―
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“We
live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle
of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.”
―
Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“We
must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but
not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the
stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace
of this world. To make injustice the only
measure
of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
―
Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
“The
world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't
it?”
―
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“A
pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
―
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
“He
said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical
pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.”
―
Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
“That
pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most
intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems and Essays
“The
art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes
vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which
replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.”
―
Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
“We
don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I
say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and
beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them!
Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in
his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We
have a human need for craftsmanship!”
―
Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere
“Of
four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful
streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black
and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream;
fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from
these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry
Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/
Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”
―
John Milton, Paradise Lost
“If
you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life.
What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have
you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.”
―
Lemmy Kilmister
“I
care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures
sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.”
―
Roman Payne
“The
greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover
new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”
―
Frederick the Great
“Remember
the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson.
Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is
found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
―
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
“May
a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind
him.”
―
Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
“Old
boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the
price.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“I
don’t want enlightenment. I want to enjoy this life. There is a reason why God
gifted us with a mind and five senses. We wouldn’t be having them if our goal
was to undermine their existence. We are here to feel. Emotions, pleasure and pain
of all sorts. Becoming emotionally numb is, therefore, not our purpose. It
certainly can never be!”
―
Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
