“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens… — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
