Quotes About Pleasure

Quanto mais exótico é o manjar, mais aventuroso é o verdadeiro gourmet e maior a probabilidade de algum incómodo posterior. Não me vou negar aos prazeres de uma morcela, ou de um sashimi, ou mesmo de uma ropa vieja na tasca cubana, só porque às vezes não me sinto muito bem algumas horas depois.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly - that business about marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.

They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly—that business about the marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.

Pero hermanos, este morderse las uñas acerca de la causa de la maldad es lo que me da verdadera risa. No les preocupa saber cuál es la causa de la bondad, y entonces, ¿por qué quieren averiguar el otro asunto? Si los liudos (individuos) son buenos es porque les gusta, y ni se me ocurriría interferir en sus placeres, así que lo mismo deberían hacer en el otro negocio. Y yo soy cliente del otro negocio.

I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

Toplumun onaylad??? eylemlerin d???na ç?kam?yorsun, sadece iyilik yapabilen küçük bir makinesin. Ayr?ca ÅŸu marjinal koÅŸullanmalar meselesinin… içyüzünü aç?kça görüyorum. Müzik ve cinsellik, edebiyat ve sanat, art?k bunlar haz deÄŸil ac? veriyordur herhalde. (syf. 136 – 137)

Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

In other words, nearly all the inhabitants of these outwardly disconnected empires turn out at last to be tenaciously inter-related; love and hate, friendship and enmity, too, becoming themselves much less clearly defined, more often than not showing signs of possessing characteristics that could claim, to say the least, not a little in common; while work and play merge indistinguishably into a complex tissue of pleasure and tedium.

They made me think of long-forgotten conflicts and compromises between the imagination and the will, reason and feeling, power and sensuality; together with many more specifically personal sensations, experienced in the past, of pleasure and of pain.

The message of the bell, the singer's tragic tone announcing it, underlined life's inflexible call to order, reaffirming the illusory nature of love and pleasure.

Perhaps not interested in the sense you mean,' said Moreland, 'but everyone likes being fallen in love with. People who pretend they don't are always the ones, beyond all others, to wring the last drop of pleasure – usually sadistic pleasure – out of it.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures." —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The most important lesson we learn in life is what creates pain for us and what creates pleasure.

it's not actual pain that drives us, but our fear that something will lead to pain. And it's not actual pleasure that drives us, but our belief—our sense of certainty—that somehow taking a certain action will lead to pleasure.

WHAT YOU LINK PAIN TO AND WHAT YOU LINK PLEASURE TO SHAPES YOUR DESTINY

Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

El secreto del éxito consiste en aprender a usar el sufrmiento y el placer, en lugar de permitir que éstos le utilicen a uno. Si lo hace así, ejercerá el control sobre su propia vida. Si no, la vida le controlará a usted. TONY ROBBINS

Comprender y utilizar las fuerzas del dolor y del placer es lo que le permitirá, de una vez por todas, crear los cambios duraderos y las mejoras que desea para sí mismo y para aquellas personas que le importan. El no comprender esta fuerza le condena a un futuro en el que vivirá a base de reacciones, como un animal o una máquina.

Book love, my friend, 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 t you as long as you live.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?