Quotes About Pleasure

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Confused by the mind and diffused by the senses, we seek Pleasure and lose the great Treasure called Life.

Treasures of life lie in the little joys of life, not in those materialistic earnings of yours that you slogged so hard for.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life and to be happy. It's all that really matters.

Life is like a coin, pleasure and pain are the two sides, only one side is visible at time, but remember other side also waiting for its turn.

Life is like a bowl of ice-cream, it melts very quickly so enjoy it while it lasts.

What matters is not how many miles you run. What matters is whether you are having Fun!

Things like happiness, pleasure, joy, and affection are all good entities that love generates. When times get hard in love, it may seem easy to say that you no longer want love involved in your life, just remember that without love you will never experience the feelings that make life worth living for.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever

One moment of gratification is not worth a lifetime of being unhappy.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back.

Una barca ben costruita, un albero ben cresciuto, una storia ben raccontata, tutti questi per lui erano piaceri.

I lean forward and our lips land clumsily on each other. They are like the fat bodies of bees, soft and round and giddy with pollen. I can taste his mouth — hot and sweet with honey from dessert. My stomach trembles, and a warm drop of pleasure spreads beneath my skin. More .

Its burst of grainy sweetness filled my mouth; the skin was downy on my tongue. I had loved figs, once.