Quotes About Pleasure

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

He helped Walter Legge underwrite the creation of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and conducted its premiere concert on 25 October, 1945. Later, Legge raised the matter of Beecham's fee, to which he replied: "The privilege of directing this magnificent consort of artists is such that my pleasure would be diminished if I accepted a fee. I would, however, gladly accept a decent cigar"

The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into an erotic object.

La moraleja de todo esto es que la extraña relajación fomenta el placer y que la relajación es un estado de apertura casi completo ante cualquier cosa que pueda sobrevenir. También supone irreflexión. Empecé a preguntarme si existirían personas que viviesen la mayor parte del tiempo sin ataduras, sin pensar, dejándose llevar.

The pleasure was in the staging, the idea of ourselves as a repetition of others. I knew this without saying it, felt my femininity as the game of all women, a mysterious identification in which I lost myself.

In the past I had given myself up to ephemeral pleasures, falling into bed with near strangers, and had no regrets. But those encounters had been simple. With George, I was lost - like a person in another country who can't read the signs. And George had taken the advantage. By claiming that I, unlike he, was intelligible - an open book - he had made me vulnerable.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person can eroticism last.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

God's will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.