Quotes about Pleasure

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.

This knowledge is that which is above all others sweet and joyful. Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy which arises from this divine light shining into the soul.