On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la...

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. […] It’s hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn’t mean it can’t...

How shall we distinguish that whichis good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is thepleasure of the bee to gather honey...

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall,...

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition’s stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

L’homme jouit du bonheur qu’il ressent, et la femme de celui qu’elle procure. Cette différence, si essentielle et si peu remarquée, influe pourtant, d’une manière bien sensible, sur la totalité de leur conduite respective. Le...

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political–for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the...

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t...

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Passion is all but soft, it’s not tender, it’s violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven… The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so… Live life so well!

Happiness. We’re tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven’s sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn’t, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment...

The greatest part of the job was… that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Your erotic,A memoir of pleasure.Caress the streets as through they held the touch of mink,Leaving only trails of stardust.Your eyes could Pierce hearts, leaving eternal scars of that moment,Moments so bittersweet they linger upon the...

If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until you’re sixty-five.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer

—I won’t go about to argue the point with you,—’tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, “That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I...

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me...

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and...

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation...

a joy that hurts with sadnessa sadness that is pleasurablea pleasure full of terrora terror that excitesan excitement that calmsa calmness that frightens.

these sailors are men who have found a purpose in life and now take simple pleasure in it.” Jasnah looked at the next drawing. “Many people make far less out of life.

…up to no good—and pleased about it.

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not...

When you’re coming into something that is reasonably successful, the question always is, ‘What are you going to do to make it more successful?’ … For me, it’s just a question to find a way...

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure...

It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he’d found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He’d been...

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: “Amara & The Strange...

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

… I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other…

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

It is true, Monsieur,” Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, “that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion,...

Why? What kind of man would pleasure his woman by hurting her.’ Angus paced across the path. ”Tis a man’s duty, nay, his privilege, to give his woman all the pleasure she can bear. She...

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it’s always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me – that’s...

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of...

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.