Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“This means that shame monitors excitement and pleasure. Nature has made the sexual experience the most exciting and pleasurable of all our… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure. — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up,… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“I slapped her across the face. I didn’t think about it, I just did it, and few things in my adult life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
