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Quotes About Pleasure

Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.
~ Edward T. Welch
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
~ Albert Camus
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
~ Albert Einstein
The signs to watch out for are the combination of seeing the person as special and experiencing instant rapport. Narcissistic Superstars create an alternate reality in which they are the greatest, and you will be the greatest too if you just give them what they want. In their world, all you're supposed to want in return is the pleasure of their company. They work hard to make you see them as special enough to be exempt from the rules that apply to other people.
~ Albert J. Bernstein
He was hailed with much cordiality by the group. The maid of honor, who was an old friend of Laddie's, unlimbered a candy box from under her arm and offered the collie a large and mushy and delectable bonbon. With outward gravity, but inward bliss, he accepted the gift daintily, and fell to munching it with infinite epicurean relish. Sweets were taboo for dogs, at The Place, as a rule. Lad loved them the more for their rarity.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there's not a breeze at all, it seems Like there's a light breeze blowing for a minute But the trees are unmoving In every leaf of their leaves And our feelings have had an illusion, An illusion of what would please them...
~ Alberto Caeiro
En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.
~ Alberto Olmos
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
~ Aldous Huxley
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
~ Aldous Huxley
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~ Aldous Huxley
Como la boca llena de risa, como el sexo lleno de semen,
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
El lujurioso, el voluptuoso, el lúbrico, el mórbido y el lascivo. Mi mano es el espejo de la matadora.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
hours hours and hours snap up our pleasures
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather than pain. Yet this by no means implies that comedy is distinguished from tragedy by what one would call today a "positive attitude," "positive thinking," the ability to find something positive and satisfactory even in the worst situations.
~ Alenka Zupan?i?
Objectivism holds that the good must be defined by a rational standard of value, that pleasure is not a first cause, but only a consequence
~ Alex Ayres
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will
~ Alex Comfort
1)A women's greatest asset is her beauty. 2)There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don't balk them if you can help it. 3)A meal can be an erotic experience in itself. 4)We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
~ Alex Comfort
What's the paradessence of ice cream?
~ Alex Shakar