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Pleasant Quotes

Comfort, and what complicates it.

These pleasant quotes often work in reverse, admitting what isn't pleasant — doubt, losing a close race, or the strange discomfort of unearned attention. See our Good quotes for more.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Quotes by Adrian Edmondson

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

Quotes by Vern Buchanan

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

Quotes by Thiruvalluvar

Experience Quotes

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Quotes by Pierre Bonnard

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

Quotes by Petra Collins

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Good Quotes

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Quotes by Paul Kantner

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

Quotes by Nobuo Uematsu

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Quotes by Nastassja Kinski

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Quotes by Mike McCue

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Quotes by Lucretius

Life Quotes

Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.

Quotes by Kristin Davis

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Quotes by Kjell Magne Bondevik

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

Quotes by John Lawson

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Quotes by Jim Harrison

Like Quotes

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

Quotes by James Murphy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is 'pleasant' mostly used positively in this topic?
Not really — most quotes here define it by contrast, describing things that are notably not pleasant, like doubt or losing a close contest.
Does this topic connect pleasant to music?
Yes, one quote questions the assumption that complex music must also be pleasant, suggesting the two don't always go together.
Is fame described as pleasant here?
It's mixed — one quote calls unearned celebrity attention pleasant one moment and awkward, even embarrassing, the next, all rolled into a single experience.
Does competition come up in this set?
Yes, one quote reflects that losing a tight, closely contested race is never a pleasant experience, regardless of effort.
How does this topic relate to Good quotes?
Pleasant quotes focus narrowly on comfort and ease, while Good quotes cover a much broader sense of what's worthwhile or positive.

One quote even challenges the assumption that complex music has to be pleasant to listen to. Pair this with our Experience or Like quotes.