Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
He is like the rest of his clan, a painful sort of beauty that seems detached and cold — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
My idea of romance... Is... Okay. I have an idea... I think my idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.' — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect. If you get the other stuff right (the other values… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus,… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
