Quotes About Pleasure

Every birth is followed by death, just as every pleasure is also followed by pain.

Health gives satisfaction, but not so much with pleasure in the sense of indulging oneself.

How we wish we could breathe forever. But death, the destroyer of pleasure is waiting to take it away from us. Maybe death is the price of life. Isn't death painful because life is always beautiful?

Nature loves us so much. But like all strong love, it has to be paid back one way or another. The pleasure must be balanced with the pain inflicted.

Only after experiencing pain can we enjoy pleasure and derive happiness from it.

Pleasure can only be experienced after going through pain and vice versa.

Sometimes we should cherish weekends because weekdays are so stressful. Maintaining balance between pleasure and pain.

Stoicism will teach you to smile at pain and frown at the sight of too much pleasure.

The cravings of the human cannot be fulfilled, nor satisfied at one instance.

The holy man can pretend to hate the pleasures of this world, while at the same time he is still praying and begging for similar satisfactions in heaven.

The king is a prisoner in disguise. All he can enjoy are free meals like a prisoner getting the same pleasure in prison.

The only endless pleasure in the world is to love and be loved back.

We are powerless and we take pleasure in being so.

You are living for the sake of love and your life is not free from wanting more love or pleasure to yourself.

You cannot act without the presence of the will-power, every act leads to a desire and desire to achieving pleasure. Therefore, happiness seems to be the final destination of mankind.

You must sacrifice pleasure in order to obtain the highest pleasure bestowed from your Creator.

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.

But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure of reading, for her, was not possible. She was in another time, place, consciousness; it pressed in upon her and filled her as someone's breath fills a balloon's shape. She was already not what she was. No fiction could compete with what she was finding she did not know, could not have imagined or discovered through imagination.

I had sex," Drew said with a grin. "Lot's and lots and lots of sex... Hey, no use in good energy going to waste.

I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.

How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free. "Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt." "Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.

Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.

Hawke." "Shh … Lie back and think of England." Laughter reawakened inside of her, bubbling its way past the raw burn of emotion. "I'd rather think of you." She felt his smile against the curve of her abdomen, his jaw rough with stubble that made her shiver as he kissed his way oh-so-slowly down her body.