Quotes About Pleasure

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.

I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness.

guilt's a whore. It goes with anybody, but it's not good in bed. You're not dying, but this thing you've got with the girl is no different than my situation. We could both use up whole days feeling guilty 'bout what we didn't do in life, but why spend a day in bed with someone who doesn't give you any pleasure?

Whatever else it throws at you, life will always have pleasures to offer. And we should take them.

Take It and Like It

He wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.

Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving skill. He believed that terrible harm would come to him when he could no longer preserve his mother's illusions.

He goes from one sensation to another — but no satisfaction.

Shouldn't goodness be its own reward? He [Perry Hildebrandt] wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.

But many human beings do take pleasure in inflicting pain on others, and those who have the least to be proud of or to be happy about are often the ones who take that pleasure most.

Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.

And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Seven months later, June 18, 1941, as the first display of German bombing lit the Trachimbrod skies electric, as my grandfather had his first orgasm (his first and only pleasure, of which she was not the cause), she slit her wrist with a knife that had been made dull carving love letters.

Let's describe the reality: that piece of meat came from an animal who, at best—and it's precious few who get away with only this—was burned, mutilated, and killed for the sake of a few minutes of human pleasure. Does the pleasure justify the means?

O verbo ler, como o verbo amar e o verbo sonhar, não suporta o modo imperativo. Eu aconselho sempre os meus alunos que se um livro os aborrece o abandonem; que não o leiam porque é famoso, que não o leiam porque é moderno, que não o leiam porque é um clássico. A leitura deve ser uma das formas da felicidade e não se pode obrigar ninguém a ser feliz.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Si un libro les aburre, déjenlo. No lo lean porque es famoso o porque es moderno o porque es antiguo. Si un libro es tedioso para ustedes, déjenlo, aunque ese libro sea el Quijote. Ese libro no ha sido escrito para ustedes. La lectura debe ser una de las formas de la felicidad y no se puede obligar a nadie a ser feliz.

La lectura debe ser una de las formas de la felicidad y no se puede obligar a nadie a ser feliz.