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Quotes About Pleasure

Zevk, okuma ve rahatl?k yeterliydi Nicholai için. (...) EÄŸlence gibi bir uyuÅŸturucu maddeye de gereksinim duymuyordu.
~ Trevanian
Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones.
~ Tucker Max
The ultimate blissful pleasure is that which we created beings give back in return—when a lost soul returns, a hidden spark of meaning is restored to its place, a piece of the world that seemed unsalvageable, ugly and sinister is transformed so that it shines—even if but for a moment—with its essential, primordial light.
~ Tzvi Freeman
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?
~ Umberto Eco
omne animal triste post coitum
~ Umberto Eco
by now it is more pleasurable for a monk to read marble than manuscript, and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. Shame! For the desire of your eyes and for your smiles!" The old man stopped, out of breath.
~ Umberto Eco
Il sonno diurno è come il peccato della carne: più se ne è avuto più se ne vorrebbe, eppure ci si sente infelici, sazi e insaziati allo stesso tempo.
~ Umberto Eco
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
~ Umberto Eco
Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class.
~ Upton Sinclair
Memories did not come in a rush, but little by little; and perhaps that was just as well. She was getting back her interest in life, she was learning to live in this new-old world and be useful in it, much more so than she had been in the past, for she had been a self-centered person, ravenous for pleasure and praise.
~ Upton Sinclair
Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.
~ Upton Sinclair
And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn't been satisfactions at all.
~ V.S. Naipaul
And, partly to have peace on Sundays, and partly because the combination of the word "Sunday" with the word "school" suggested denial and a spoiling of pleasure, he sent Anand and Savi to Sunday school.
~ V.S. Naipaul
taking a delicious pleasure in the knowledge that she'd never be stupid enough to spend £700 on a handbag or a pen.
~ Val McDermid
Oh, for that first hit of the day, the blessed nicotine hitting the bloodstream and snapping the synapses to attention.
~ Val McDermid
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
~ Veronica Franco
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God's own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man's fear will always fail.
~ Veronica Franco
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
~ Victor Hugo
La pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
~ Victor Hugo
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
Os maus têm uma maneira sinistra de ser felizes.
~ Victor Hugo
There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.
~ Victor Hugo
pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.
~ Victor Hugo