Quotes About Pleasure

Basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente, cuanto más extraña es la obtención del goce. Se unirán en seguida, excluyendo toda otra pasión, para aislarse en la dicha alusinada de un paraíso artificial.

In an attempt to learn more about what happened during a lobotomy, Freeman tried performing them with the patient wide awake, under local anesthesia. During one of these procedures, Freeman asked the patient, while cutting his brain tissue, what was going through his mind. "A knife," the patient said. Freeman told this story with pleasure for years.

I see Freud as energized by three motivations: pleasure in classifying, lust for problem solving, passion for system building.

Hephzibah normally left the dishes until the next day. Piled up in the sink so that it was near impossible to fill a kettle. And what the sink wouldn't take would stay on the kitchen table. Treslove liked that about her. She didn't believe they had to clean up after every excess. There wasn't a price to pay for pleasure.

The point of a coffee store was not just to teach customers about fine coffee but to show them how to enjoy it.

When we love God, love our brothers and sisters, and love ourselves, our Maker is pleased.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

there's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Cada prazer da vida se funda no retorno regular das coisas externas. A alternância do dia e da noite, das estações, das flores e dos frutos, e cada coisa que nos vem ao encontro periodicamente, porque nós podemos e devemos apreciá-las, estes são os verdadeiros estímulos da vida terrena. Quanto mais abertos estamos a tais fruições, tanto mais nos sentimos felizes' Goethe

A hotdog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz

To put it in the contemporary vernacular, Baal and Asherah were in effect the patron saints of sex and guns and rock 'n' roll, promising to deliver a potent mixture of satisfaction to the desires for power, success, and pleasure. This

drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.

Boredom is the secret to releasing pleasure. Once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary to its nature, then the real work can start.

She was having fun, but her fun emerged from misery. Fun isn't pleasure, it turns out. Fun is the feeling of finding something new in a familiar situation. Fun almost demands boredom: you need the sense that nothing good could possibly arise from an experience in order for the experience of finding something there to smolder with the hot pleasure of surprise. Likewise

We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.

I sketched a picture of Jean-Claude in my notebook; he saw me, so I showed it to him. He erupted in pleasure. It seemed I'd found a way into his trust and his company—into his world. It was easier to do this with the residents than I had imagined. There were not rules, no prescribed routes: you went with what was available, with the most human thing you could catch on to.

Sex and drugs and rock and rollIs all my brain and body needSex and drugs and rock and rollIs very good indeed.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

I was sure that on my gravestone, my epitaph would read, 'He came. He saw. And then he came again.