'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Coloured lights splintered behind my eyes. For a few brief, blissful moments, all thought, all memory, dissolved like sugar in water. I… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time makes use of that which… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
