Quotes about Pleasure
I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
— Dolly Parton
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
— Anais Nin
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
— Deepak Chopra
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
— Lydia Millet
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
— MFK Fisher
This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it's all just one big, mind-bending love story, isn't it?
— Ted Dekker
I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come—a tremendously liberating knowledge.
— Ted Dekker
Trust the Father. Then you will master this world with pleasure rather than be mastered by it. Then you will find the power to command any storm.
— Ted Dekker
touching God might be like touching a thick shaft of lightning, but one filled with pleasure. It might very well kill you, she said, but at least you'd die with a smile on your face.
— Ted Dekker
God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us.
— Julian of Norwich
Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure, always taking pleasure in God. He wants us to remember that life is short and it won't be long until we clearly see, within him, all that we desire.
— Julian of Norwich