Pleasure
Quotes - Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures
“Every
moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
―
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“He
went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people
hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned
beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and
found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any
walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)”
―
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“The
sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
―
Casanova, The Story of My Life
“It
is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by
sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man,
thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few
roses among life’s thorns”
―
D.A.F. Marquis de Sade
“The
clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely
for pleasure.”
―
Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
“The
pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all
the more. 1153a 23”
―
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
“Pleasure
cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when
we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not
to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is
that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance
the sense of our own Power....”
―
Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“Life
is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every
situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that
purpose could be.”
―
Steve Maraboli
“Think
big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
―
H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
“The
pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some
very fine things.”
―
Jean De La Bruyere
“The
creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the
Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as
they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of
happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by
unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
―
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
“Here
at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
―
Junot DÃaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Pleasure
is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“I
experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
―
Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
“Ask
him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because
it is hard to bear the happiness of others.'
'When
are we happy?'
'When
we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are
forever playing.'
'What
is regret?'
'To
realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.'
'What
is sorrow?'
'To
long for the past.'
'What
is the highest pleasure?'
'To
hear a good story.”
―
Vikram Chandra, Red Earth and Pouring Rain
“A
premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one
would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable
instances where one would have experienced pain.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“There's
a difference between sexuality and sex. I used sex to get what I wanted. Sex is
just an act. Sexuality is a sincere expression of desire and pleasure.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The
human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of
pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
―
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and Beautiful
“It
is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
―
Niccolò Machiavelli
“I
don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
―
Claude Monet
“Some
women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political
statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as
much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single
misogynist believes).”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“Yes,
faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make
another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Desires
are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from
them.”
―
Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life
“And
he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and
drink.”
―
Honoré de Balzac
