Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
For all men, good and true is the same. Pleasure is different for everybody.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy
I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; most miserable the ones who enjoy the least pleasure
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.