I’ve always felt that love and luck are two sides of the same pair of jeans. Pick a partner that won’t pick your pockets, and you won’t have to be plucky to find pleasure.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.”Augustus,” I said.”I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m...

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love.

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

Sex doesn’t satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it, the more you die out.

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we...

I cannot believe it. I made a mistake in the program, but I could skate with pleasure. I think I will realize I have won a gold in the next two or three days.

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the...

It’s the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the...

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop...

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Success, if I simply gave it to you, you wouldn’t have the pleasure of taking it.

Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn’t highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with humiliation, but which almost is humiliation. Men who have escaped death by a...

Noelle slid up Rachel’s body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. “Ace has to make his choice,” she murmured, stroking Rachel’s lips. “He doesn’t get to lock you away from...

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

I can understand where he’s coming from… I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we’re nothing more...

I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to...

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

This beautiful body, sweetness? It’s made for pleasure. It’s singing to me, telling me what it wants and needs. Those other idiots you were with weren’t fuckin listening.

This means even more to me socially than artistically. It’s just a pleasure to be a part of this movie and I can’t even believe I’ve got this for it.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

It’s precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine?

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won’t see it often.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the...

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is...

And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

A child’s reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different...

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere with body signaling (painkillers, anesthetics), the brain receives a distorted view of what the body state really...