Pleasure Quotes - Page 11

• How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

  Ellen Goodman

  Exercise, Joy, Lists

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• Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

  Stendhal

  Men, Giving, Action

  Stendhal, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1927). “On Love”

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• I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

  Epicurus

  Sake, Spit, Inconvenience

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• I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

  Claude Monet

  Appreciate, Painting, Should

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

  David Hockney

  Art, Thinking, Despair

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• Pleasure must be found in study.

  Paul Cezanne

  Study, Found

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• Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

  Martin Seligman

  Important, Engagement

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• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Pay, Spoil, Pleasant

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• My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

  Yann Martel

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Art rides in on pleasure.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art

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• The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Appreciation, Achievement, Desire

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• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Desire, Want, Tests

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Expression, Voluptuous

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Art

  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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• There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Bitter, Pure

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• Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Usury

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.144

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• Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

  Edmund Burke

  Kind

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

  Philip James Bailey

  Eye, Heart, Tears

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.132

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• Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

  Horace Greeley

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Beauty, Nature, Pain

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• He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cancer, Heart, Innocent

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• The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

  George Farquhar

  Sweetest

  George Farquhar (1760). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Publish'd in His Life-time. In Two Volumes”

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• Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Ifs

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.2

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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