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Quotes About Enjoyment

The joy of life is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world.
~ Mircea Eliade
We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.
~ Miriam Toews
Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.
~ Mitch Albom
And together they did eat of the candy corn. And it was good.
~ Mohja Kahf
I get in, and she turns the music down. It's Nusrat, remixed and clubby, but damn good as always.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Nekem megvan a magam külön szótára: akkor múlatom az idÅ't, ha rossz és kellemetlen; ha jó, nem akarom elmúlatni: ízlelem, belékapaszkodom. A rosszon át kell futni, a jóban meg kell pihenni.
~ Montaigne
El desear y el gozar nos llevan al mismo dolor
~ Montaigne, Michel de
Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.
~ Mur Lafferty
very good story and I enjoyed it very much
~ Myrna Mackenzie
As far as I am concerned, all reading is for pleasure.
~ Nancy Mitford
It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive? Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey...
~ Nancy Mitford
I believe reading is about experiencing joy, and that we learn something about ourselves, and the world, with every book we read, whether a romance, biography, mass-market thriller, or a literary novel. ...We may agree, or we may not, on what's a good book; readers differ all the time on the quality of a book. When it comes to reading, the only opinion that should matter is our own.
~ Nancy Pearl
Oh, how I'd enjoyed all that sweet crisp righteous anger, my favorite drug: I'd nearly ridden the high straight into murder.
~ Naomi Novik
after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire's pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, and Laurence could not but think with satisfaction of the dragon's likely delight in the new book, which spoke in great detail about gemstones and their mining, despite his own complete lack of interest in the subject.
~ Naomi Novik
Religious beliefs had little or no effect on a man's sexual pleasure, but could slice as powerfully as the circumcision knife into a woman's enjoyment, undermining with guilt and shame any pleasure she might otherwise experience.
~ Naomi Wolf
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.
~ Napoleon Hill
It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo , anyone can live to a hundred.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
que la vida pasa volando, especialmente la parte que vale la pena vivir.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon