The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“And so we use them for a kind of pleasure which can be called "fun." But it is not the creative kind… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What really matters is the work. And what matters to me is doing the work. I'm not looking at the back end:… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
“In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using… — Michael Langford Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“The point is that a pleasure which leaves you satisfied stops being a pleasure the moment it has been enjoyed. You are… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
