Quotes About Pleasure

Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

If I had to choose between making love and corn on the cob, I'd pick corn on the cob.

Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.

whole can of it last night. I think he likes it almost as much as

Far be it from me to stand between a girl and her Skittles

To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.

Le plaisir féminin était sa quête, Stella était son temple, la femme était son Dieu [...]

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Cuando empleamos nuestras horas agradablemente, transcurren más de prisa; pero cuando éstas son tristes se deslizan con mayor lentitud [...]; por otro lado, casi no tenemos noción del pasado cuando éste es aburrido y en cambio lo tenemos presente cuando es entretenido.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind.

I stole several glances at the jury," Pafko says about the opening, "and they could not take their eyes from you." Stern tempers his pleasure in his client's compliments with the knowledge that Kiril has never abandoned the Argentinian way and frequently brings forth a river of fulsome bullshit.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.

Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?

What provokes me worst of all are our fateful bourgeois distinctions of rank. Of course I know as well as anyone that differences of class are necessary, and that they work greatly to my own advantage: but I wish they would not place obstacles in my way when I might enjoy a little pleasure...

But the man who humbly acknowledges the vanity of all this, who observes with what pleasure the thriving citizen converts his little garden into paradise, and how patiently even the poor man pursues his weary way under his burden, and how all wish equally to behold the light of the sun a little longer - yes, such a man is at peace, and creates his own world within himself;

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

But, alas! I feel it too sadly. I am alone the cause of my own woe, am I not? Truly, my own bosom contains the source of all my sorrow, as it previously contained the source of all my pleasure.

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia; anzi esso è proprio una specie di pigrizia. Non vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

Lei chiama il cattivo umore un vizio; mi sembra esagerato». «A me non sembra», ribattei, «perché merita di essere chiamato vizio tutto ciò che danneggi noi stessi e gli altri. Come non bastasse il fatto che non siamo capaci di renderci felici l'uno con l'altro così dovremmo anche toglierci l'un con l'altro il piacere che a volte il nostro cuore riesce a procurarsi? »

Now, nothing makes me more angry than people who torment one another, particularly young people in the prime of their lives, when they should be most receptive of all pleasures, mutually spoil their few good days by putting on moody faces, realizing only when it is too late that they have wasted something irrecoverable.