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.

…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.

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.

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

When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes’ book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and “read it with so much pleasure that he was...

You see, when you’re excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.

It’s really nice to see Gov. Taft recognize that, … It’s always a pleasure to showcase what’s going on here in southwestern Auglaize County. It’s nice to show the hard work of the people here.

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall...

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

There are seven things that will destroy us:Wealth without work;Pleasure without conscience;Knowledge without character;Religion without sacrifice;Politics without principle;Science without humanity;Business without ethics.

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Visits always give pleasure–if not the arrival, the departure.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

What is love when it’s not for dopamine?

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

La honte que cause l’amour est comme sa douleur : on ne l’éprouve qu’une fois. On peut encore la feindre après ; mais on ne la sent plus. Cependant le plaisir reste, et c’est bien...

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...

All political appointees of the President can be removed from their position of appointment at anytime at her pleasure,

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Deny a man pleasure, the possession of woman’s body and he will show you his true colors.He will dismiss his frustration onto her, forcibly abuse her, offend her all at the cost of his desires,...

To feel your arms around me…to feel your breath on my neck…is pleasure in itself. It is home.

Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man’s table, or the child from a woman’s breast, or the wife from a man’s bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could...

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to...

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won’t...

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its...

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust,...

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.