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Quotes About Pleasure

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
~ Marquis de Sade
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
~ Michael Caine
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
~ Aphra Behn
You love life, because loving life brings you pleasure. But not loving yourself brings less pleasure, and more pain.
~ Unknown
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
~ Padma Lakshmi
Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
~ Mark Vonnegut
Drunkenness was a communal and personal pleasure at once, a miserable state only to those not drinking. Sobriety to him was a cruel attack of conscience masking itself as awareness. If sober people were so aware, how come they only spoke truth when drunk? Give him the romance of a drunkard over the indignation of a teetotaler any day.
~ Marlon James
In successful Karezza the sex-organs become quiet, satisfied, demagnetized, as perfectly as by the orgasm, while the rest of the body of each partner glows with a wonderful vigor and conscious joy
~ Unknown
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
~ Marquis de Sade
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
~ Marquis de Sade
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~ Marquis de Sade
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
~ Marquis de Sade
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.
~ Marquis de Sade
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
~ Marquis de Sade
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
~ Marquis de Sade
One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
~ Marquis de Sade
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
~ Marquis de Sade
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
~ Marquis de Sade
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
~ Marquis de Sade
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
~ Marquis de Sade
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
~ Marquis de Sade
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
~ Marquis de Sade
I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.
~ Unknown