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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Sep 10, 2025
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
Pleasure is everything.
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.
Pleasure is the bait of sin
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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.
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.