Quotes About Pleasure

Se o exercício desse direito (o direito de dispor de seus próprios corpos, como as feministas diriam hoje), na utopia de Sade, resumia-se ao dever de tornar-se instrumento do prazer de outrem, não era tanto porque Sade odiasse as mulheres, mas porque odiava a humanidade. Ele percebeu, mais claramente do que as feministas, que todas as liberdades sob o capitalismo, no final, resumem-se na mesma coisa, na mesma obrigação universal de sentir e de dar prazer.

The world does not exist merely to satisfy our own desires; it is a world in which we can find pleasure and meaning, once we understand that others too have a right to these goods.

Judge you the rest; being tired she bade me kiss;Jove send me more such afternoons as this!

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. And when things look worst, we run the most.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

Masturbation is pleasure without cost. So how might you make people pay?

Egypt is our world today—different vocabulary, same issues. Egypt was organized on the basis of force, ambition, and pleasure, just like our culture today. Egypt persecuted the people of God and was overthrown by divine judgment, just as today's world is destined to be.

The magic of sex is itís acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, thereís no storage problem.

Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God. Grace changes everything!

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first.

Do things to me, Luke. Do things that will make us forget everything going on outside this room.

But the amusement that comes from watching people make fools of themselves isn't good. There's too much malice in it to please a heart more in key with simple joys. One can feel a mocking gaiety and still remain miserable. I think unhappiness may even engender such feelings. Sour pleasures feed off sour hearts.

this would be no easy victory. "In truth, Alexander, you are so demanding these days that a saint would defy you, and do so simply for the pleasure of thwarting your schemes. You

Pepys was a good scholar, able to read Latin for pleasure all his life; and that very skill may have helped to leave his English free and uncluttered for the Diary, the language of life as opposed to the elaborately constructed formulations of the classroom and study.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it. As for me, I substitute the act of death for a symbol of it. A symbol that can be summed up in a deep kiss but not on a rough wall but mouth-to-mouth in the agony of pleasure that is death. I, who symbolically die several times just to experience the resurrection

I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that frees me. I could manage to have pleasure if I abstained from thinking. Then I'd feel the ebb and flow of air in my lungs.