Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

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 above his desk for her.

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

Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures.

A cup of joy is better than an ocean of pleasure.

A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as this gust of feverish agitation that sweeps over us from time to time. For then the die is cast, the person whose company we enjoy at that moment is the person we shall henceforward love. It is not even necessary for that person to have attracted us, up till then, more than or even as much as others. All that was needed was that our predilection should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled when — in this moment of deprivation — the quest for the pleasures we enjoyed in his or her company is suddenly replaced by an anxious, torturing need, whose object is the person alone, an absurd, irrational need which the laws of this world make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage — the insensate, agonising need to possess exclusively.