PLEASURE QUOTES V

quotations about pleasure


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Pleasure is the flower that fades.

STANISLAS JEAN DE MARQUIS BOUFFLERS
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attributed, Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul


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The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Pleasure is life, and pain is death.

MINOT JUDSON SAVAGE

Light on the Cloud


Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

WILLIAM COWPER

Hope

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

AYN RAND

The Virtue of Selfishness

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As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

Letters to Young Men

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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

PLATO

Protagoras

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When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

Happiness: A History

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Pleasure is not a thing, but a sensation caused by the fitting together of desire and accomplishment. There is such a thing as honey, but there is no such thing as sweetness, until contact takes place between the tongue and some object capable of imparting to the gustative papillae that sensation which we call sweetness. For moralists, therefore, to rail against pleasure is as irrational as it would be for physicians to warn people against sweetness; there are wholesome things that taste sweet as well as unwholesome, there are noble and holy sources of pleasure as well as ignoble and unclean. In pursuing pleasure men are trying to grasp a phantom--in declaiming against it they are beating the air; the important thing is what is the nature of desire? For it is of the union of desire and accomplishment that pleasure is born, and the nature of the offspring depends on its parentage.

HERBERT MAXWELL

Littell's Living Age, March 12, 1892


Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name--
I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low:
Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Complaint

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Pleasure believes in friends, pleasure creates communities, pleasure crumbles faces into smiles, pleasure links hand in hand, pleasure restores, pain is the most selfish thing.

DELMORE SCHWARTZ

"Pleasure", Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge


Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

EPICTETUS

Discourses

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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Pleasure is a crumbling statue.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

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Your partner's pleasure is your pleasure.

JUDY FORD & RACHEL GREENE BALDINO

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire


So what do we know about the pursuit of pleasure compared to the pursuit of meaningful activities that also foster engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment? Can the seeking of pleasure alone lead to psychological well-being? Research shows that engagement and meaning are significantly related to well-being, whereas pleasure is negatively related to objective well-being, including things like education, achievement, and the absence of mental disorders. Engagement and meaning contribute more to well-being than pleasure, because they help people build resources that are valuable. Seeking pleasure provides a short-term reward but does not provide further skill or resource development.

JENNIFER W. SHEWMAKER

Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children


Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

OSCAR WILDE

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure's inventions are soon exhausted.

JAMES BALDWIN

Just Above My Head

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Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more
With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight,
Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight,
But sour in taste, false as the putrid core:
Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light;
She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor:
She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell;
Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell:
Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems

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