Lucretius Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

  Lucretius

  Death, Past, Leaving

• Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

  Lucretius

  Gratitude, Men, Wind

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 1 - 4 (tr. Rouse),

• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

  Lucretius

  War, Encounters, Literature

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

• From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Vex, Bitterness

• Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

  Lucretius

  Mother, Men, Aeneas

• It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

  Lucretius

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

• The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

  Lucretius

  Men, Leaving, Darkness

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 37,

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