Pleasurable Quotes

142 Pleasurable quotes by 131 unique authors

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to… — Sakyong Mipham
The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious — Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing that one dies... has brought with it a peace that before was elusive to say the least... it is useless, if at times pleasurable,… — Ruth Cracknell
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I… — Steven Soderbergh
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable… — Gunther Schuller
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. — Lucretius
Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible. — BrenÃ© Brown
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life. — Greg Gutfeld
I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two… — Robin Leach
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it… — Ian MacKaye
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back. — Jenna Elfman
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had… — Eric Burdon
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct… — Greil Marcus
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's… — M. Ward
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like… — Neil Jordan
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable… — Eckhart Tolle
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… — Alain de Botton
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand,… — Eduard Hanslick
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. — Erasmus Darwin
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back… — Joe Bradley
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange. — Oliver Jeffers

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