Energizing Quote by Audre Lorde

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

— Marquis de Sade

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

— Erica Jong

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

— Takashi Miike

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it…

— Paul Goodman

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

— David Hume

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure…

— Rebecca West

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire…

— Nathaniel Branden

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde