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Quotes About Pleasure

Essere fatta male nel senso vuol dire, evidentemente, non riuscire a provare piacere sotto i colpi del maschio, vuol dire torcersi di voglia strusciandosi per acquietare il desiderio, vuol dire afferrargliele mani, portarsele contro il sesso come a volte ho fatto io con Franco ignorando il suo fastidio, anche la noia di chi ha già avuto il suo orgasmo e ora vorrebbe assopirsi.
~ Elena Ferrante
I couldn't resist; we drove to Argentario. I was dazed by love. We spent marvellous days devoted to the winter sea and, as had never happened with either Franco or, even less, Pietro, to the pleasure of eating and drinking, conversation, sex.
~ Elena Ferrante
Oh of course it pleased me, it pleased me greatly. But I also felt as if my body had the consistency of egg shell, and a slight pressure on my arm, on my forehead, on my stomach would be enough to break it and dig out all my secrets, in particular those which were secrets even to me.
~ Elena Ferrante
Será possível que nem os momentos felizes de prazer resistam a um exame rigoroso?
~ Elena Ferrante
Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously. An enemy may simply be someone who, out of a sort of emotional exhaustion, has avoided the effort, the complexity, the pleasure - all the ambiguities of friendship.
~ Elena Ferrante
Existir é isto, pensei, um sobressalto de alegria, uma pontada de dor, um prazer intenso, veias que fremem sob a pele, e não há outra verdade que se possa contar.
~ Elena Ferrante
But at the same time I was grateful for the small dose of humiliation and pain he had inflicted on me. I went around the bed, sat on the edge beside him, and masturbated him. He let me do it, with his eyes closed. He ejaculated without a moan, as if he were feeling no pleasure.
~ Elena Ferrante
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
~ Elena Ferrante
simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
~ Elias Canetti
I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph
~ Elif Batuman
Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?
~ Anthony Marais
If pleasure is Nature's seal of approval, sleep is her reward.
~ Anthony Marais
Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
~ Anthony Marais
The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.
~ Anthony Powell
I like to fuck a lot and drop acid becomes one of our rallying cries, better than any Ohh-rah or Semper fi.
~ Anthony Swofford
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
~ Anthony Trollope
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
~ Anthony Trollope
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
~ Anthony Trollope
If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.
~ Antonia Macaro
It's not by pursuing but by abandoning our desires that real satisfaction can be found.
~ Antonia Macaro
The Buddha, for his part, talks about the 'eight worldly conditions' that 'keep the world turning around', and around which the world turns. 'What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, pleasure and pain'.
~ Antonia Macaro
Musonius Rufus writes that the soul is strengthened by first reminding ourselves of the right perspectives and then moulding our actions to this understanding, so that we stop pursuing things that are not truly good and stop avoiding things that only seem bad. In this way, we 'won't welcome pleasure and avoid pain … won't love living and fear death, and … in the case of money, [we] won't honor receiving over giving.
~ Antonia Macaro