Quotes About Pleasure

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

Losing the secret, he feels like a boy again. The boy he'd been before he had the secret. A kind of imp again. He gets from all her naturalness the pleasure and ease of being natural himself. If you're going to be a knight and a hero, you're armored, and what he gets now is the pleasure of being unarmored.

What after all does it consist of? You put your dick some place and moved it back and forth and stuff came out the front.

He'd never lost the simple pleasure, which went way back, of making people uncomfortable, comfortable people especially.

pero el placer estriba en no poseer a la persona. El placer es esto. Tener a otro contendiente en la habitación contigo.

O my America of the plains and the mountains and the valleys and the rivers and the canyons... It is with j'ust such patriotic incantations as these that I have begun to put myself to sleep at night, after jerking off into my sock.

When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement.

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

Happiness recedes from those who pursue her." Happiness will come upon me unexpectedly as a by-product, a surprising bonus for something I have invested myself in. And, most likely, that investment will include pain. It is hard to imagine pleasure without it.

Somehow Christians have gotten a reputation as anti-pleasure, and this despite the fact that they believe pleasure was an invention of the Creator himself. We Christians have a choice. We can present ourselves as uptight bores who sacrificially forfeit half the fun of life by limiting our indulgence in sex, food, and other sensual pleasures. Or we can set about enjoying pleasure to the fullest, which means enjoying it in the way the Creator intended.