Pleasure Quotes

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.