Quotes About Pleasure

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

La anciana descubrió que le gustaba. Le agradaba la sensación de asesinar. Se le ocurrió que matar podría ser un mal universalmente satisfactorio.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane's ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us." P. 38-39

Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us. Not everything which hurts may be bad.

Alice cold make no sense of the despair into which she had fallen. She had always held that happiness should be defined as an absence of pain rather than the presence of pleasure. So why, with a decent job, good health, and a roof over her head, did she regularly and so childishly collapse into moist sobs?

Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be.

What was this curious, syntactically repetitive emotion? It expressed a certain reflexivity about the amorous state, it meant deriving more pleasure from one's own emotional enthusiasm than from the object of affection which had elicited it.

Yet there is a particular kind of pleasure at stake here, too. The news, however dire it may be and perhaps especially when it is at its worst, can come as a relief from the claustrophobic burden of living with ourselves, of forever trying to do justice to our own potential and of struggling to persuade a few people in our limited orbit to take our ideas and needs seriously.

we cannot help but ask what comes of all of this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is nothing to show but the satisfaction of hunger and sexual passion, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a little momentary gratification Ã¢â'¬Â¦ now and then, between Ã¢â'¬Â¦ endless needs and exertions.

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

no es necesario que sufras para tener derecho a sentirte bien, como tampoco es necesario que te pelees para disfrutar del sexo.

When one is beyond love, where does pleasure lie? What does one do, seeing the lustful, disrespectful world going about its business, the young up one another's arse? Was there ever an end to it, this irresistible, normal, subnormal craving for sex? Or did it go tauntingly on?

When Senta started singing it was spellbinding—Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure.

Robinson's analysis. People invested in not knowing, not thinking about, certain things in order to have "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved" will be ecstatic when their instinct for consensus is gratified—and wrathful when it is thwarted.

Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of "the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

The real curriculum is punctuality, obedience and the acceptance of monotony, those skills we shall require later in life. Oblique aversion therapy to cure us of our thirst for information, and condition us so that thereafter we forge an association between indolence and pleasure. We confuse rebellion with a hairstyle