There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What's the pleasure?' I asked. 'Planning, I guess. I don't know. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will… — John Green Copy Share Image
I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Pleasure & The Greatest Pain exists in a relationship.” — Dharmendra U Copy Share Image
