Quotes about Pleasure
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
— Mark Twain
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
— Epicurus
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
— RC Sproul
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is my drug of choice.
— Marty Rubin
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
— Samuel Johnson
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
— Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
— Samuel Johnson
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
— Epictetus
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
— CS Lewis
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
— Edith Wharton