Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“You want to …?” His other eye popped open as I started to slide down his body, intent on exploring that part… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are… And there can be no love where love does not find… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still'… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Death and pleasure we experience asymptotically. We spend much time working upward on the slope, and most people only sometimes approach the… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A lesson without Pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But once you have overcome… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of… — Asaram Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure! Always your goal is pleasure. Pain, yes of course! Yet pain must only be used as a means to… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so… — John Updike Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
