Sure I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience having gone through persona changes like that that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces but which all experience refutes.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Each morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there if it's received great I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received great I respect you for not.

Youth is in a grand flush like the hot days of ending summer and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

To all to each a fair good-night and pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

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.

The human heart has hidden treasures In secret kept in silence sealed The thoughts the hopes the dreams the pleasures Whose charms were broken if revealed.

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment but there is death in them at the end.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.