Quotes About Pleasure

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.

When will pleasure crash with regret?

Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.

The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.

Pleasure has turned into passion much more quickly than I should ever have thought possible.

who says we can't touch ourselves to keep from getting bored? nothing else is touching thats for sure

He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.

And then he grasped that this city of machines, this city of sobriety, this fanatic for work, sought, at night, the mighty counterpoise to the frenzy of the day's work—that this city, at night, lost itself, as one insane, as one entirely witless, in the intoxication of a pleasure, which, flinging up to all heights, hurtling down to all depths, was boundlessly blissful and boundlessly destructive

The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. Pleasure promotes the resignation which it ought to help to forget.

As the arrangements of life no longer allow time for pleasure conscious of itself, replacing it by the performance of physiological functions, de-inhibited sex is itself de-sexualized. Really, they no longer want ecstasy at all, but merely compensation for an outlay that, best of all, they would like to save as superfluous.

If all pleasure has, preserved within it, earlier pain, then here pain, as pride in bearing it, is raised directly, untransformed, as a stereotype, to pleasure: unlike wine, each glass of whisky, each inhalation of cigar smoke, still recalls the repugnance that it cost the organism to become attuned to such strong stimuli, and this alone is registered as pleasure.

There can be no greater pleasure in life," Stalin is reputed to have said, "than to choose one's enemy, inflict a terrible revenge on him, and go quietly to bed." He might have added, if he really did say this, "secure in the knowledge that one has done good." Committing evil for goodness' sake must surely rank as an even greater pleasure than Stalin's: It satisfies the inner sadist and the inner moralist at the same time.

the primrose path to earthly perdition.

We should remember that there are few pleasures greater than promoting your moral enthusiasms at other people's expense.

There are few illicit pleasures greater than that of causing pain to others for their own, or some higher, good.

While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.