Quotes About Enjoyment

There is no happiness that lasts overlong. There are only moments of intense pleasure that make all that comes between bearable.

But Finbarr smiled differently, not out of amusement, but happiness. As if he liked the world and enjoyed being in it.

There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Food that's good for you should taste good!

Mr. Ankerson, however, was well provided for already. He had ordered a bottle of whisky for himself and was quietly enjoying a one-man orgy in the corner.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Words, says Freud, are a halfway house to lost things; and words are only one class of the sets of symbols that make up human culture. "If we could not have schizophrenics we also could not have cultures," says LaBarre.21 Freud's analysis of word-consciousness deepens our understanding not only of language as neurosis, but also of culture as neurosis and of culture as a "substitute-gratification," a provisional arrangement in the quest for real enjoyment.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading in itself. Following the lines of something — not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend — becoming surefooted on the high-wire of the author's intention.

Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.

You cannot enjoy my sweetness and refuse to enjoy my bitterness when arise.

He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

I'm a goofy old fart, but I still have fun. Have you ever been on a rollercoaster? I'm so old I get that same sensation just rolling over in bed.

Oh, it wasn't work. I love to read." "Do you really?" "I didn't used to so much. It just seemed to come this year—liking it so, I mean." She turned her face toward him. "When you read a book you like a lot," she went on, "do you try to stop between sentences and look around and think it over, like eating a piece of candy just as slowly as you can, so it will last longer?

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.