Quotes about Pleasure

From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair, Wearied of every temple we have built, Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer, For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high: One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life~to be happy~it's all that matters.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.