Quotes About Pleasure

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

Man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. And not just a notion picked up in books. Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits, customs, relaxation, pleasure, down to the simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his algorithms... what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam is the sense of his own loneliness.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never know full possession which disappoints by its very completeness. O what joy to be able to postpone the fulfillment of desire to infinity!

that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—

I do not like the idea of happiness -- it is too momentary.

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II, i The Migration July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. – DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.

He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.