It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
—Socrates
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
Every action has its pleasures and its prices.
—Socrates
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. – C.S. Lewis
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“It is a glorious thing when the heart delights itself in the law of the Lord, and finds therein its solace and pleasure.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
—Voltaire
Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.
—John Wesley
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
—Thomas Aquinas
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
—Socrates
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
—Seneca
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
There are better pleasures than to be first.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
—Thomas Jefferson
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart