Bed Quote by Ian Fleming

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

— Josef Pieper

“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are minefields.”

— Angela Carter

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as…

— Alain de Botton

The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

— Brené Brown

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler

The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference…

— Mencius

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

— Hosea Ballou

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or…

— Samuel Johnson

How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they…

— Elizabeth Hay