Book Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before…

— Eknath Easwaran

You don't have to be a tactile person to enjoy an embrace or a touch of the hand - it's basic human nature. It's…

— Ulrika Jonsson

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.

— Washed Out

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

— Blaise Pascal

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

— Max Eastman

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

— Pema Chodron

If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and…

— Reb Anderson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if…

— Anthony Burgess