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Quotes About Pleasure

Who doesn't love cock?
~ Hanif Kureishi
I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?
~ Hanif Kureishi
Nije li erotika neutaziva glad koja samu sebe pothranjuje?
~ Hanif Kureishi
the innocent have everything—integrity, respect, moral goodness—except pleasure. Pleasure: vortex and abyss—that which we desire and fear simultaneously. Pleasure implies dirtying your hands and mind, and being threatened; there is fear, disgust, self-loathing and moral failure. Pleasure was hard work; not everyone, perhaps not most people, could bear to find it.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?
~ Hanif Kureishi
If living is an art it is a strange one, an art of everything, and particularly of spirited pleasure.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Masters and Johnson found] the so-called vaginal orgasm was actually not vaginal. When it happened at all, it was the result of friction between clitoral hood and clitoris that some women experienced when the thrusts of the penis tugged at connected flesh.
~ Hanne Blank
He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
~ Harlan Coben
Walking is, in fact, a tremendous bore. But I liked watching Chloe walk. I know that sounds queer, but a dog derives such pleasure from this simple activity. It made me Zen-happy to watch her. Back
~ Harlan Coben
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.
~ Marty Stuart
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
~ Sloane Crosley
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
~ Leonard Nimoy
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
~ Sigmund Freud
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
~ Laurence Housman
After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a luxury.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
Floating Points plays a lot of music that I don't know, and I like geeking out and trying to find out what the tracks are. His knowledge of house music is pretty deep, and his selection is just amazing. And I think it's a pleasure to listen to his music because it's so perfectly produced.
~ Jamie xx
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
~ Al Goldstein
One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.
~ Denis Norden
There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain.
~ LeAnn Rimes
Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
~ P. D. James
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
~ David Attenborough