Quotes About Pleasure

I've prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well - as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, 'treat yo'self.'

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

If it makes me happy, it definitely adds to my well-being.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

When you usually think of dessert for one, its something microwaved in a mug or a precious, portioned miniature.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

I have always preferred satin sheets.

I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I'm a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I've always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.

I just love buying myself presents. Is that a crime?

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.

Dinner and a movie is pretty great.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

I could binge-eat cheese - I love any blue cheese. Make it strong; make it deadly.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

I always degenerate to chocolate and coffee.