No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

The NSA is looking for terrorists. They’re not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you.”—

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Sixty seconds of laughter is way more pleasurable than sixty days of happiness alone.”

“I don't think we can measure the success of this Mardi Gras by its crowds but by its spirit. The pleasure I saw was enormous. Honestly, what does crowd size matter compared to that? I wasn't counting heads because I was too busy counting smiles.”

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.