Quotes About Pleasure

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.

Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

Lei odia il piacere degli altri, Clelia, questo è il fatto. Lei Clelia fa male. Lei odia se stessa. E pensare che è nata di razza. Faccia allegria intorno a sé, smetta il broncio. ll piacere degli altri è anche suo...

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

Living in a sexpally environment is a tool to evergreen happiness.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.

To love intelligent women is the pleasure of a pederast.

What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?

There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,Richness, quietness and pleasure.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?