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Quotes About Pleasure

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad. Bad is good; good is bad. They are two sides of one coin. So enlightenment should be in practice. That is the right understanding of practice, and the right understanding of our life. So to find pleasure in suffering is the only way to accept the truth of transiency.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. We should find perfection in imperfection... The eternal exists because of non-eternal existence... We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering... Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards
~ Siddharth Astir
Success is shortlived when accompanied by contentment
~ Siddharth Astir
Those pleasures so lightly called physical.
~ Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Oh come on, haven't you ever known you shouldn't do something,but you couldn't help yourself?" Nataly's voice turned smooth and lulling. She smiled catlike. "The temptaion , the lure of a few moments of ecstasy is just too much to resist, and give in, even though you know you shouldn?" Yes," Clarissa said, "I have those moments, They're called 'eating chocolate.
~ Sierra St. James
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
~ Sigmund Freud
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
~ Sigmund Freud
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
~ Sigmund Freud
But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work . Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.
~ Silvia Federici
Food is just another form of pleasure. It's a sensual experience just like sex.
~ Silvia Violet
Then please, Daddy, take me to the farm so we can have a sex retreat.
~ Silvia Violet
Broadminded though we take ourselves to be, lust gets a bad press. It is the fly in the ointment, the black sheep of the family, the ill- bred, trashy cousin of upstanding members like love and friendship.
~ Simon Blackburn
Let us admit it, to irritate idiots actually is enjoyable.
~ Simon Leys
It takes him long time, but eventually Simon is able to explain. A computer is a magical box that provides endless pleasure for free. Simon is used to constant access to this box—a never-ending flow of pleasures. When the box stops working—or even just briefly slows down—he becomes so enraged that he curses our God, the one who gave
~ Simon Rich
I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
~ Simon Van Booy
Buying is a profound pleasure.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.
~ Simone Elkeles
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
~ Simone Weil
As long as there's coffee and chocolate, nothing else matters.
~ Sinan Antoon
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
~ Sir Edmund Hillary
Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.
~ Sir Francis Bacon