Pleasure Quotes - page 9

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. (Truman Capote)
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain. View quote
J. P. Donleavy
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. View quote
Augustus
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. View quote
Herbert Spencer
To avoid pain, people avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. View quote
Rajneesh
Love not Pleasure; love God. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. View quote
Italo Calvino
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me. View quote
Mark Rothko
Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)
Of London Crowds without company, dissipation without pleasure. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture. View quote
Max Beckmann
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
I had given up [around 1950] any ambition of making a career as an artist... I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded. View quote
Henry James
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. View quote
Matt Damon
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment. View quote
Irvine Welsh
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. (John Ruskin)
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. View quote
John Ruskin
I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure. View quote
Antisthenes
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti