Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying… — Mabel Iam Copy Share Image
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The next time you and somebody are in an elevator alone, give them the creepiest stare followed by the creepiest smile ever.… — Dan Cummins Copy Share Image
A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for… — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Pleasure. This is what true pleasure feels like. It's not just the softness of a kiss. It's not just the delicate touch… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“This beautiful body, sweetness? It’s made for pleasure. It’s singing to me, telling me what it wants and needs. Those other idiots… — Ella Fox Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing… — John Green Copy Share Image
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Her pleasure was his pleasure and watching her above him receive so much joy from what his body could do to her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
