“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a… — Willie Mays Copy Share Image
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So what's the big picture about our lust for sex? We're not trying to acquire something. We want to feel something: Alive.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
“He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
“I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
