“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“of you, every single inch of your silky golden skin, is mine to play with, mine to pleasure, mine to devour.” — Ann Mayburn Copy Share Image
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams. — Dejan Lovren Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse.… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
