Quotes About Pleasure

Nur wer vor 1789 gelebt hat, weiss, wie angenehm das Leben sein kann

not far beneath the surface appearance of happy, liberated emerging adult sexual adventure and pleasure lies a world of hurt, insecurity, confusion, inequality, shame, and regret.

People take sex far too seriously.

Was there anything quite so under-rated in this shallow, plastic, global-corporate, tall-skinny-late, kiddy-meal-and-free-toy, united-colours-of-fuck-you-too world, than a good old-fashioned, no-frills, retail blow-job?

This was the moment you took your pleasure back to the shop and spent the refund on guilt.

Bookshelves of summer houses are filled with dishy nonsense. They indicate how a person understands time is meant to be wasted.

Chi trova gusto a mangiare non è ancora perduto

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

They had no conception that sex had anything to do with emotional feelings and the desire for human contact — even among homosexuals. All that they cared about was a little bit of pleasure for themselves.

I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.

I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.

His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her".

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

looking at something beautiful really can make us happier, by stimulating dopamine in our brains.

5Children are miracles in their own right. 6They already have the gift of life, and their parents provide them with the opportunity to express it. 5 Nothing physical, mental, or spiritual should be used selfishly. 2The pleasure from using anything should come from utilizing it for God's will.

Da gustosamente, 2 pues con ello sólo puedes beneficiarte.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

There is an attraction for you which does not exist for me, since I do not feel any pleasure. You see, we are making a bargain. You give me a dream, I give you joy. But all this is not love.

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.