Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The pleasure of life is to work hard towards your goals, but a little bit smart and achieving them. — Ziph Alzu Copy Share Image
“You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.” — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning,… — David Berg Copy Share Image
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
