Delight Quote by Gerard De Nerval

“The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations. Besides the pleasure there is always…

— Alexander Dumas

L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera, mille affections…

— Denis Diderot

“For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only…

— Italo Calvino

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of…

— Marquis de Sade

“Instead of being impure men, they are very pure mannequins. ...One certainly paid a penalty for pleasures. But when that had passed... memories flowed.…

— Guy Pene Du Bois

“the sills of their disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly for the most part, locked and forgot in their desires—unroused.”

— William Carlos Williams

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility…

— Tom Robbins

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

— Joseph Addison

“Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am separated by…

— Roland Barthes

“in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company…

— Marcel Proust