For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain. — Plato Copy Share Image
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV. — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“When we are faced with circumstances, He gives us the Power to endure! When we are faced with loss, He grants us… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
“You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Relationship Principle 9 Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only… — Khurram Murad Copy Share Image
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her… — Zulay Henao Copy Share Image
Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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 read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
