Quotes About Pleasure

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet. The proper study of mankind is books.

From the ranks of the crawling babies came little squeals of excitement, gurgles and twitterings of pleasure.

Casi todos desean la paz y la libertad, pero son muy pocos los que tienen gran entusiasmo por las ideas, sentimientos y actos que hacen factibles esos ideales. Inversamente, casi nadie quiere la guerra o la tiranía, pero son muchos los que hallan un placer intenso en las ideas, sentimientos y actos que llevan a esas calamidades.

You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.

Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Si la mayoría de nosotros permanecemos ignorantes de nosotros mismos, es porque el autoconocimiento es doloroso y preferimos los placeres de la ilusión

The spoils of recent technological imperialism have been enormous; but meanwhile nemesis [from Greek mythology] has seen to it we get our kicks as well as halfpence. For example, has the ability to travel from New York to Los Angeles given more pleasure to the human race than dropping bombs and fire has given pain?

To think about events realistically, in terms of multiple causations, is hard and emotionally unrewarding. How much easier, how much more agreeable to trace each effect to a single and, if possible, a personal cause! To the illusion of understanding will be joined, in this case, the pleasure of hero-worship, if the circumstances are favourable, and the equal, or even greater pleasure, if they should be unfavourable, of persecuting a scapegoat

The spoils of recent technological imperialism have been enormous; but meanwhile nemesis [from Greek mythology] has seen to it we get our kicks as well as halfpence. For example, has the ability to travel in twelve hours from New York to Los Angeles given more pleasure to the human race than dropping bombs and fire has given pain?

Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro y en su lugar hemos puesto el sensorama y el órgano de perfumes. - Pero no tienen ningún mensaje. + Si, el mensaje consiste en emitir una gran cantidad de sensaciones agradables para el público.

El servicio había empezado. Las tabletas de soma consagradas fueron colocadas en el centro de la mesa. La copa del amor llena de soma en forma de helado de fresa pasó de mano en mano, con la fórmula: «Bebo por mi aniquilación».

The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.

Nunca tente compartilhar suas alegrias. As pessoas são solidárias na dor, mas não no prazer.

Havia uma coisa chamada Céu. Mas, apesar de tudo, bebiam enormes quantidades de álcool.

No dejes para mañana la diversión que puedes tener hoy.

A gramme is better than a damn.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from phase to phase like one of those novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tire. You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers.