Quotes About Pleasure

Sex with Jonas was okay, but he was unsatisfied. According to him I was supposed to be having orgasms, but I had no idea what that was or how to do it. It didn't matter to me, I loved fucking and I just wanted to be close to him.

Trust me, I'm looking forward to it. But it's like cramming a whole ice cream cone in my mouth and swallow it whole. What good is that? It's over and done in a second. I want to really taste it, to lick it slowly. I want to savor the ice cream, you know what I'm saying?

Harley studied his erection, lightly running her fingers over the smooth skin. His cock jumped at her touch. It was a pretty penis, she had to say. Good length, pleasing circumference. Not too big, not too small... the Goldilocks of cocks. Just right.

Sex is of the body, and the body is of death.

Nature seems to have built into organisms an innate healthy-mindedness; it expresses itself in self-delight, in the pleasure of unfolding one's capacities into the world, in the incorporation of things in that world, and in feeding on its limitless experiences.

He has to try to get as many ways of earning self-esteem as possible, to constantly broaden his skills, the things he genuinely takes pleasure in, in place of what others think he should take pleasure in.

We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality; we encapsulate ourselves to avoid death. And life escapes us while we huddle within the defended fortress of character.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was a Château Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

There is milk? What luxury!

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.

Should I pity so and so? I asked. I gave his name but he delights so in giving it himself that I feel there is no need to give it for him. No. He's vicious. He's a corrupter and he's truly vicious. But he's supposed to be a good writer. He's not, she said. He's just a showman and he corrupts for the pleasure of corruption and he leads people into other vicious practices as well.

I love your beard," Catherine said. "It's a great success. It looks so stiff and fierce and it's very soft and a great pleasure.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO Yes, and music is the opium of the people.

No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

To drink is nothing. It's important to be drunk.