Quotes about Pleasure

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

Thus, to give an obvious instance, if I have once enjoyed the cool shade of a tree, and been lulled into a deep repose by the sound of a brook running at its feet, I am sure that wherever I can find a tree and a brook, I can enjoy the same pleasure again. Hence, when I imagine these objects, I can easily form a mystic personification of the friendly power that inhabits them, Dryad or Naiad, offering its cool fountain or its tempting shade. Hence the origin of the Grecian mythology.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.