Home / Topics / Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure Quotes

Browse 7286 quotes about Pleasure.

Pleasure Quotes

“Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

Looks Light Eye Desire Pleasure Darkness Mystery Creation Shapes Angel Burning Glorious Within You Burning Desire

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.”

Way Littles Facts Light Language Pleasure Cases Darkness Missing Amount Immense New Ways English Language Virginia Woolf Lamentation

Author:E. M. Forster

“The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.”

Years Hours Pleasure Darkness Cheer Recollection Despondency

Book:Prometheus, part II, with other poems

Source: Prometheus, part II, with other poems

“The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.”

Men Pleasure Darkness Hell Pure All Things Leaving Driven Miserable Blackness

Author:Lucretius

“As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.”

Men Pleasure Common Darkness Wise Miserable Vain Despise Skepticism Blindness Herds Being Wise Plunge Sceptic

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

“Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.”

Men World Children Said Problem Light Would Be Born Pleasure Existence Darkness Fire Wife Son Buddhism Ethics Guides Code Disgusting Weary Deserted Guide Me Light Of The World

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.”

Problem Light Truth Evil Pleasure Views Darkness Greater Crime Honesty Majors Excellence Delight Point Of View Charm Identical

Book:120 days of sodom

Source: 120 days of sodom