Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.
pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
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