Pleasure Quotes - Page 2

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Each indulgence in pleasure is an appointment made with misery.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn't highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

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.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

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.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.