Quotes About Pleasure

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

True happiness isn't enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Anything that's good is better with whipped cream.

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless.

The French don't valorize a pregnant woman's anxiety. Instead, in the word cloud of French pregnancy, terms like serenity, balance, and Zen keep popping up. Mothers-to-be are supposed to signal their competence by showing how calm they are and by making it clear that they still experience pleasure. This small shift in emphasis makes a big difference.

Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.

Books are a pleasure and they anchor your greater values.

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.

according to the psychoanalyst Ruben Find, one of the world's greatest players, players are of two antithetical types. One is the hero, who has no religion, no reason for being, other than chess. His every satisfaction and every pleasure is drawn from the board and the viories it brings him; conversely, his every pain and fear of death is embodied in his defeats

To happiness in the strict sense, we may prefer pleasure, as a brief moment of ecstasy stolen in the course of things, gaiety, the lighthearted drunkenness that accompanies life's development, and especially joy, which presupposes surprise and elation. For nothing can compete with the irruption in our lives of an event or a being that ravages and ravishes us. There is always too much to desire, to discover, to love. And we leave the stage having hardly tasted the feast.

Ce sont tous les plaisirs du monde qui se retirent en nous disant adieu.

Scandaliser est un droit. Être scandalisé est un plaisir.

If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' " - Lib McGovern

Randy knew he wasn't an alcoholic because an alcoholic craved liquor. He never craved it. He just drank for pleasure and the most pleasurable of all drinks was the first one on a crisp winter morning. Besides, when you took it with coffee that made it part of breakfast, and therefore not so depraved.

Estas fluctuaciones mentales se caracterizan por el placer y el dolor, y así parece que la conciencia experimente placer y dolor, cuando en realidad el placer y el dolor son propiedades de la mente y no de la conciencia.

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling.

She is a black witch," Charles said, equally quietly. "We have always been enemies. For right now, we are aimed at the same target; that is all. If your target is pleasure and you're sure that's what hers is, too, that's fine. Just remember—a black witch doesn't love anything but power.

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though she had to admit that the sensation was pleasurable on those rare occasions when she could relax enough to enjoy it.