Quotes About Pleasure

She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

Who wants tea and sympathy? Let's have coffee and sex, Stacey, eh?

Few pleasures are as basic and satisfying as hearing a good story-unless it's the pleasure of writing one.

He wanted to see this woman writhe in pleasure, wanted to be the only man to cause it. More than anything he wanted her to need him.

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

He asked so little of life that its frugal bounty amazed and delighted him.

Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

The pleasure of this kind of narrative is not that we think we are reading about the real world (although the story usually does map onto our world fairly closely), but rather that the wings of symmetry are unfolding around us; briefly we are on a planet where, as E.M. Forster says, there are no secrets and human behavior makes sense. I call this 'fiction.

Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.

Una mujer capaz de placer puede convertirse en rebelde, puede traicionar a su dueño y señor, puede buscar lejos del lecho connyugal este placer, puede burlar el dominio del varón y darle una descendencia ilegítima para escarnio y estafa de la sacrosanta ley de la herencia.

The Devil had granted my wish to watch him sleep, but granted it in his usual cruel fashion, making a pain of a pleasure. Yet pleasure there was. I still desired to watch over him, be his dragon against Botts.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.

Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.

He feared snakes, and tamed Pharaoh's rat, the rust- backed mongoose. No bust of it was made, but there was pleasure for the rat. Its restlessness was its excellence; it was praised for its wit; and the jerboa, like it, a small desert rat, and not famous, that lives without water, has happiness.

There is very little pleasure in being snubbed over a task for which one is well qualified. There is, however, quite a bit of pleasure in watching the ones who did the snubbing later eat their own words.

An orgasm -- for all that ails you. -Kelly's thoughts

Soda-the only good part of tonight Colin McCauley

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

i love erotic books.