A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.