Quotes About Pleasure

I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.

It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it, too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations. Then, why singing? Why pleasure in it? And why the blessing of the moment when another voice is heard, dreaming to itself?

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don't know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them I ever will read. This has done nothing to dampen my pleasure in acquiring more books.

I believe there is a dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

there's no pleasure in work if you don't break a sweat. Out in the fields you feel any little breeze. You know it's coming, you hear it in the trees, you almost can't wait for it, and then there it is, like a cold drink of water.

No one, especially not Birkhoff himself, would claim that the intricacies of aesthetic pleasure could be reduced entirely to a mere formula. However, in Birkhoff's words, In the inevitable analytic accompaniment of the creative process, the theory of aesthetic measure is capable of performing a double service: it gives a simple, unified account of the aesthetic experience, and it provides means for the systematic analysis of typical aesthetic fields.

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

wet, turgid flesh.

The promised reward of heaven is too far away, men must have some pleasure now. God will forgive them.

El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romántico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Así se vive más tranquilo y se goza más, te aseguro.

Quique pensó que no volvería a excitarse pero, pasado un momento en esta postura —él echado de espaldas, Marisa acuclillada sobre su cara, ofreciéndole un sexo rojizo que él lamía concienzudamente, y Chabela arrodillada entre sus piernas y con su pene en la boca—, sintió de pronto que su sexo comenzaba a endurecerse otra vez y ese delicioso cosquilleo en los testículos, síntoma seguro de la excitación. Con

Omdat ik niets zo leuk vind als jou te kwellen. Had je dat niet gemerkt?' 'Hélas, ja,' zei ik, terwijl ik een kus op haar haar drukte. 'Dat heb ik maar al te goed gemerkt, al sinds een aantal jaren, en het ergste is dat ik niet door schade en schande wijzer word. Ik lijk het zelfs leuk te vinden. We zijn het volmaakte paar: de sadiste en de masochist.

El sexo había sido para él, igual que el alimento, algo que aplacaba una necesidad primaria y luego producía hastío

Desde luego que tiene sentido hacer literatura, porque la literatura puede ser, además de algo que produce placer, que estimula la imaginación, que enriquece la sensibilidad, puede ser una manera de hacer tomar conciencia de la problemática social al público lector y al gran público en general».

No hay placer más complejo que el pensamiento y a él nos entregamos»

El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romántico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Así se vive más tranquilo y se goza más.

ninguna locura, no se disforzaba. Se tomaba sus copas y nada más.

Every meal should be a small celebration

I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Cigarettes are food for the soul

The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be savored.