Quotes About Pleasure

Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.

Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always had to be a book. I didn't care much for anything else.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Music is just something I find very fun, the way other people find going to the mall is fun - which I do, too, trust me. I love shopping.

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We will rationalize anything into an excuse to indulge in whatever it is that makes us feel temporarily satiated.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.