Pleasures

Famous quotes containing the word pleasures:

“Of a couple
who have grown together,
sharing equally
their pleasures and pains
and whose love
in time
blooms fully,
the one who dies lives on;
the other one is dead.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Paris: a city of pleasures and amusements where four-fifths of the people die of grief.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)