Quotes About Pleasure

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

Want a Coke?" Abra asked. "Sugar solves lots of problems, that's what I think.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy.

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure. If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that way We all came digging for treasure.

Hot chocolate in Central Park! What was the Dark Tower compared to that?

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

The two best things in life are warm croissants and a quick way home.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

The way to be happy is totake pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not inimagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.

Never allow negative energy to dominate the pleasures of an experience

Death is pleasure when Heaven is sure

Life isn't life without real butter.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

Praying is pleasure pursuit.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.