Pleasure Quotes

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain.

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

Don't make your career be your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only since it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Happiness is pleasure without regret.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

There is nothing like geology; the pleasure of the first day's partridge shooting or first day's hunting cannot be compared to finding a fine group of fossil bones, which tell their story of former times with almost a living tongue.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.