Quotes About Pleasure

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.

Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A living speck-the merest dab of life-capable of pleasure and pain, is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Women could be trying at times, but they often brought warmth and pleasure to a man's fire.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want?

I don't want to be intelligent! I want to enjoy myself.

To think that men and women had actually had sex together—had actually done things. Or, rather, men had done things. It was the men who did them, the women who had them done. Men who had the pleasure, women all the suffering.

Someone enjoying a good perve, no doubt. Well, and why not? There wasn't much else to enjoy, these days.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

L'expérience même n'était pas nécessaire. Sartre, j'en aurais juré, ne s'était jamais risqué sur des skis nautiques et pourtant il trouvait le moyen de décrire – et sur des pages – la jouissance du skieur. Ah ! comme l'intelligence pouvait être gaie !

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.