Quotes about Pleasure

In secret pleasure — secret tears. This changeful life has slipped away.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?

I am now quite content in my seeking pleasure in society be it country or town, a sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

What kinds of activities bring me joy and delight? What truly replenishes me?

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth.