Quotes About Pleasure

My thinking at that time was determined by a kind of wilfully repressed pleasure[Freude] in Freud ,and I wanted to be as artistically direct as plumber illustrating the history of art with a spanner.

Let us plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident ; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it is only action that can make a man.

No le sacia ningún placer, no le contenta ninguna felicidad, va sin cesar en busca de formas cambiantes. El pobre quiere apresar ese último, ese mísero, ese vano momento.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

We seem to be the only species on earth capable of killing for pleasure. The root of evil is not hate. It is ignorance.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective—on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely on facing the future?

The good news is that we have effective treatments for the symptoms of depression; the bad news is that medication will not make you happy. Happiness is not simply the absence of despair. It is an affirmative state in which our lives have both meaning and pleasure.

Neuroenology explains how the fluid mechanics of the wine in your mouth and the patterns of your breathing activate your sensory and motor pathways to create the taste of wine and, together with your central brain systems for emotion and memory, generate the whole perception of wine pleasure. We

The Roman philosopher Cicero said of the discipline of reading: No other pleasure suits every occasion, every age or every place. But the study of letters is the food of youth, the delight of old age, a delight at home and no burden abroad; it stays with us at night, and goes with us on our travels, near and far.

For the love of God have mercy on my aching cock. I want you in bed." "That, sure lord, is where I want to be.

A recipe is a guideline. Adding, subtracting, evolving it - that is part of the pleasure.

A precious – mouldering pleasure – 'tis – To meet an Antique Book – In just the Dress his Century wore – A privilege – I think – His venerable Hand to take – And warming in our own – A passage back – or two – to make – To Times when he – was young... His presence is enchantment – You beg him not to go – Old Volumes shake their Vellum Heads And tantalize – just so –

BREVITY. The quality that makes cigarettes, speeches, love affairs and ocean voyages bearable.

Life's too short to say no to cake.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…

Can you imagine opening a bottle of champagne with a bottle opener. I can't. It would eliminate half the fun.

Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight.

Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed. Chocolate makes it worthwhile.

Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions. Chocolate understands.

Chocolate promises to make everything okay.

I don't drown my sorrows — I suffocate them with chocolate.

Man cannot live on chocolate alone but woman sure can.