Pleasurable Quotes
142 quotes by 135 authors
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable…
— Julie Burchill
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It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
— Julie Burchill
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
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Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
— Griffith Edwards
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who…
— Aldous Huxley
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
— Heywood Hale Broun
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who…
— Brutus Hamilton
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my…
— Olivia Williams
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a…
— Anne Lamott
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For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable
— Heinrich Fraenkel
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When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was…
— Emile Hirsch
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I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the…
— Shirley Manson
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There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty…
— Hannah Arendt
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Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can…
— Sue Johanson
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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what…
— Bonnie Friedman
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
— Anatole France
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Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in…
— Louis MacNeice
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