“We learn from our pain. But we are rewarded with pleasure." -Ash” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin,… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
….he grabs my wrists and pins my arms up above my head, locking them in one hand. "Are you mine?" he asks… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket. — Bhuvneshwar Kumar Copy Share Image
“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
