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Quotes About Pleasure

Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.
~ Thomas Merton
alone I would never really get to understand it. I believed in the beautiful myth about having a good time so long as it does not hurt anybody else.
~ Thomas Merton
Learn to live small and you will discover great pleasures. You will accomplish more in your life than you could ever predict if you were overly ambitious.
~ Thomas Moore
She told him later that as soon as he took her wrist that night, she came. And the first time he touched her cunt, squeezed Jessica's soft cunt through her knickers, the trembling began again high in her thighs, growing, taking her over. She came twice before cock was ever officially put inside cunt, and this is important to both of them though neither has figured out why, exactly.
~ Thomas Pynchon
He didn't know whether he was planning seduction, or combat,— these, at fourteen, being the only categories of Pleasure he recogniz'd.
~ Thomas Pynchon
from among pleasure boats strung like piglets along the pier...
~ Thomas Pynchon
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
~ Katherine Mansfield
he understands that taking more pains to create something can add to the sheer pleasure of offering it up to the universe.
~ Katherine Vaz
This struck memory chords in me; seeking a life of the mind, I had more or less consciously rejected the 'girl stuff' that I associated with my mother in her kitchen. Now I realize that this rejection of the sanctity of daily tasks was self-defeating in the long run. It served to alienate me not only from the wisdom of my mother and grandmothers, but from the pleasure of cooking, serving and eating some very good food.
~ Kathleen Norris
It was cool, his finger, being made of titanium, and he used it to stroke her, first on the outside, running it over her pubic hair until she began to moan, and then sliding it inside her.
~ Kathryn Davis
It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to another, oblivious to the fact that it was completing a task on which the entire human race depended.
~ Kathryn Hughes
Live.....Laugh.....GOLF
~ Kathryn Schaefer Plaum
I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.
~ Kathryn Smith
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
~ Kathy Griffin
I now had the pleasure of her company 24/7. Joy. Kit broke the awkward silence. "This looks delicious, honey. You've done it again." Grinning, he raised his fork in a mock salute. My dad, the dork. I suppressed a sigh. If this silly, white-gloved dingbat made my father happy—and I knew she did—it was my solemn duty as his progeny to suffer it.
~ Kathy Reichs
A shelf to the left of the cash register held bottles of red wine. My weapon of choice. As I looked at them, for the thousandth time I felt the craving. I remembered the taste, the smell, the dry, tangy feel of the wine on my tongue. I remembered the warmth that would start in my gut and spread upward and outward, navigating a path through my body, lighting the fires of well-being along its course.
~ Kathy Reichs
Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari's somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music.
~ Kati Marton
A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants to be a stallion—" He dissolved in a flurry of white smoke even before I could finish the sentence. Ha! Victorious again!" Yeah," Jim drawled while I remade the bed and fluffed up my pillows. "Aisling, two; sexy, naked men who just want to give her the pleasure of a lifetime with no commitment, zero.
~ Katie MacAlister
That's all there is to life, you know. Fun things, we just need to remember to enjoy them or we waste it all.
~ Kaza Kingsley
Today he told Erec "Fun is for having. It is the one thing that is forever." Erec agreed.
~ Kaza Kingsley
Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.
~ Kedar Joshi
Between the covers, a book can be a sin.
~ Keith Donohue
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
~ Keith Green