It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. — Max Muller Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could… — Paolo Uccello Copy Share Image
“You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me… — James Lecesne Copy Share Image
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Hidden meaning of alphabet: ABCDEFG: A Boy Can Do Everything For Girl. GFEDCBA- Girl Forget Everything Done & Catches another Boy Again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
