I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I don’t feel guilty in having pleasure!

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.

A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.

Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and...

I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.

There’s no bigger pleasure for a person perhaps than to enjoy his own company and its proof is that everyone loves sleeping as that helps them to be of their own and alone.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.To explain new phenomena, that is my task;...

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Even when it wasn’t visible, Dominic could smell the newly broken skin. It sent a wave of hunger through him, but he ignored it. Not tonight; tonight was for other pleasures.

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare… Perche’ il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia… Finche’ so che al mondo c’e’ qualcuno che fa dei giochi...

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one’s pleasure, or one’s honour...

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

La imaginación es el aguijón de los placeres; en los de esta especie, lo regula todo, es el móvil de todo; ahora bien, ,no se goza por ella?,No es de ella de la que proceden...

When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything…” -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they’re outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn’t the only thing that matters,...

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for,...

Epicurus said you should live for pleasure – adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for...

Above Constance’s desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob’s viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men...

Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but as you did just now. As if I am the only man in the world who can satisfy you.~Liam C.

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

Each indulgence in pleasure is an appointment made with misery.

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without…integrity?How could she have felt like that without love?Was love essential?Did it even exist – the...

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to...

I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her...

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like “the...

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.

Scandaliser est un droit. Être scandalisé est un plaisir.

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of...

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up...

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives...

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something’s gonna get...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a...

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.