Pleasurable Quotes

142 Pleasurable quotes by 131 unique authors

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
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
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
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov
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. — Unknown Author
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
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
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. — Heywood Hale Broun
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
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… — Unknown Author
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
...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
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred. — Anatole France
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
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that… — Rose Macaulay
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. — Norbert Elias
Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more… — Richard Branson
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps… — Rita Dove

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