Quotes about Pleasure

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

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

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Thus, to give an obvious instance, if I have once enjoyed the cool shade of a tree, and been lulled into a deep repose by the sound of a brook running at its feet, I am sure that wherever I can find a tree and a brook, I can enjoy the same pleasure again. Hence, when I imagine these objects, I can easily form a mystic personification of the friendly power that inhabits them, Dryad or Naiad, offering its cool fountain or its tempting shade. Hence the origin of the Grecian mythology.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.