Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.