Quotes About Pleasure

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

It's important to keep a balanced diet, but I'm not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I'm going to enjoy that cheeseburger.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.