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#pleasure

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pleasure




They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.


Bronnie Ware


#pain #pleasure #change

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.


Edgar Allan Poe


#contemplation #derived #elevating #i #intense

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.


Voltaire


#pleasure #voltaire #beauty

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.


Malcolm Muggeridge


#courage

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.


David Foster Wallace


#death

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.


Armistead Maupin


#appreciative #celebrity #deal #from time to time #great

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.


Charlotte Bronte


#charms #dreams #heart #hidden #hopes

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.


Gottfried Leibniz


#being #counting #experiences #human #human mind

I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle.


Bauvard


#humor #leisure #pain #pleasure #funny

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.


Gena Rowlands


#acting #actress #become #enjoyable #everybody






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