Pleasure Quotes

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.