Quotes About Pleasure

He took her as though she were a toy, a toy or a closed rosebud which he brought into bloom each night of pleasure. [She] began to lose her timidity, giving herself over to that lascivious union, growing in response, turning into a heartsome, spirited lover.

Güzel Kavga S?rf kavga etmiÅŸ olmak için, birine sald?rman?n, yumruklaÅŸarak toz toprak içinde yuvarlanman?n fiziksel hazz?n? yaÅŸamak amac?yla sebepsizce dövüÅŸüyorlard?. (...) Kavga etmek t?pk? ÅŸark? söylemek gibi, hikaye dinlemek, yalan söylemek, gece r?ht?mda oturup denizi düÅŸünmek gibi iyi geliyordu insana.

yo soy tan egoista pero tan egoista que come me da tanto placer ayudarte te voy a ayudar porque yo quiero porque a mi me da placer

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Let the dozing soul remember,let the mind awake and revive by contemplatinghow our life goes by so swiftlyand how our death comes near so silently;how quickly pleasure fades,and how when it is recalled it give us pain,how we seem always to thinkthat times past must have been better than today.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place- Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.

he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

hay más placer en marchar hacia la verdad que en llegar a ella".

Los placeres profundos son caóticos y destructivos. Y la felicidad de la paz es un disfraz del aburrimiento.

El mundo es jaula de locos, los más locos gozan más; mas son pocos.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.

From theme to theme with secret pleasure tossed, Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Chill'd with tears, kill'd with fears, endless torments dwell about thee: yet who would live, and live without thee!

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Those who follow or "worship" the path of selfishness and pleasure (Avidya), without knowing anything higher, necessarily fall into darkness; but those who worship or cherish Vidya (knowledge) for mere intellectual pride and satisfaction, fall into greater darkness, because the opportunity which they misuse is greater.

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.