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Pleasure Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
- Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
- Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
- Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of…
- It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
- The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the…
- There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure…
- Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
- How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate…
- It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown…
- this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the…
- One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
- If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound…
- Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac