I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure:… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of… — Peter Bodo Copy Share Image
