Pleasure Quotes

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in ...

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

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be...

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowi...

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little...

It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to purs...

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quic...

Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,Yo...

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv...

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfe...

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin...

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created fo...

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole...

This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure,...

Another kind of bodily pleasure is that which results from an undisturbed and vigorous constitution ...

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

The superfluous is very necessary.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think th...

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed lik...

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries o...

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because th...

It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little...

They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in l...

I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that...

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind hear...

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when...

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world ...

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno...

More and more, we take for granted that work must be destitute of pleasure. More and more, we assume...

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...

The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the s...

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fi...

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get p...

Sure, there are good things, lots, sure, blow jobs, chocolate mousse, winning streaks, the warm fire...

Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accust...

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged ...

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to t...

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it...

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Plea...

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of th...

Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love ....

All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, ...

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happin...

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth f...

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile wav...

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasu...

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current b...

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul ...

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ...

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall serious...

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the speci...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it...

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanti...

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet fo...

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinf...

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have...

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...

...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open ackn...

Isn’t it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure?” he said to her once, quite simply....