Pleasure Love Quotes

• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The greatest pleasure of life is love.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Pleasure

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• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  Bette Davis

  Love, Missing You, Breakup

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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Giving

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• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

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• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Evil, Incentives

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.

  Linda Goodman

  Uplifting, Pain, Love You

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• Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Heart

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• Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

  Anthony Marais

  Pain, Love Is, Infatuation

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• Love not Pleasure; love God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God Love, Pleasure

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.26, CUP Archive

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Pleasure, Contradiction

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.141, 北戴河出版

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• Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

  Stephen Fry

  Love You, Library, Excitement

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• In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
  Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
  The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
  Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
  And on the vacant air.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.143

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