Quotes About Pleasure

Purpose is a simpler construct than pleasure because it's largely nonaroused, so either it's good (purposeful) or bad (pointless).

There is pleasure (or pain) and purpose (or pointlessness) in all that you do and feel. They are separate components that make up your overall happiness from an experience.

the more self-focused we become in trying to avoid pain and service our pleasures, the more we fall victim to greed and not sharing

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy.

Psychological research and social surveys consistently find that people around the world continue to derive most of their pleasure from having sex, eating, drinking, relaxing and socialising with family and friends. In private, many of them also seek chemical pleasure from illicit drugs, which is why drug trafficking is estimated to account for around 8 per cent of all international trade.

In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Thomas Edison once said, "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so . . . . I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin's, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta

De notities van Louise Bourgeois tonen hoe ze haar angsten en genot probeerde te verwoorden en vorm te geven in de praktijk van haar kunst. Ik twijfel er geen ogenblik aan dat ze daarmee haar leven leefbaarder gemaakt heeft. Vermoedelijk wist Louise niet dat zij met deze constante observatie van haarzelf, haar lichaam en haar verhouding met anderen aan zelfzorg deed.

group identity essentially means rules, and therefore security. Every group is concerned with regulating jouissance

Therefore the goal of the partial drive is not the other person, the goal is to achieve a particular form of gratification. In this respect, the other person is actually superfluous as a subject and can sometimes even be an obstacle to pleasure. He or she serves as an object—and actually as a partial object—a means of achieving a goal.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

Her chin was propped up on one of her hands. A gin fizz foamed in the other. "He's lovely," she said.

you can share his pleasure in that achievement with a warm smile.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

Would she ever dare tell him that no pleasure, no joy, no figment of her imagination could ever compete with the happiness she felt at the way he used her with such utter freedom, at the notion that he could do anything with her, that there was no limit, no restriction in the manner with which, on her body, he might search for pleasure?

For a long time he had wanted to prostitute her, and he was delighted to feel that the pleasure he was deriving was even greater than he had hoped, and that it bound him to her all the more, as it bound her to him, all the more so because, through it, she would be more humiliated and ravaged. Since she loved him, she could not help loving whatever derived from him.