Quotes About Pleasure

To be a servant of Allah means leading one's whole life for the purpose of gaining Allah's pleasure and approval.

As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Humans no longer eat merely to satisfy energetic requirements, any more than we have sex just to make babies.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Eat, drink, smoke, swim in the ocean, play tennis, golf, and poker, watch polo, read trash, listen to pop singers, occasionally attend the theatre, opera, ballet, charity bashes, and private shindigs, buy clothes and trinkets, write to old friends, party with new friends, and sleep. I think that about covers it.

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.

Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume.

good as sex.

Fried chicken and sweet-and-sour pork together. The only thing that could possibly make this place any better is if they served pizza and donuts, too," Duncan said as they ate at one of the four tables in the place. "This is good eatin'.

That which is written without much effort is seldom read with much pleasure.

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

To love is to find pleasure in the perfection of another.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.