pleasure Quotes

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:understanding pleasure

“Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:happiness pleasure

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:pleasure vanity

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

topic:pleasure boredom

“They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:life reality pain pleasure suffering

“Come! your presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

topic:pleasure care

“He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:writing pleasure

“Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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