Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure... breathe a sweet poison deep into… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Receiving money for something that was a pleasure to begin with is a little outrageous. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality,… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
