The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.