Pleasure Quotes And Sayings

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“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
– David Lodge

“Don’t listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can’t explain why, that’s enough”
– Calice Becker

“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.”
– Giacomo Casanova

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
– Walter Bagehot

“I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.”
– George Saunders

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23″
– Aristotle

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”
– Sei Shonagon

“The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”
– Ayn Rand

“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and other pleasures to be enjoyed to the fullest, a certain contemplative quality to life must be present. If you doubt this imagine yourself for a moment having sex. Now imagine you wished to increase the pleasure you were feeling, feel it more intensely. What might you do? Well one of the things you’d probably do is close your eyes. What this does of course is shut out other stimuli. The visual quiet increases your sensual enjoyment and you concentrate more fully on the pleasure. The same is true for the removal of auditory noise as well. Well my feeling is that the average person has a much harder time doing this today than they would have decades ago. Today you close your eyes and shut off Television but the noise persists. It’s part of our fabric now, our biology, and all other pleasures including sex are diminished as a result. We don’t notice this derogation by the way and sex still feels great, don’t get me wrong, but I think the difference is there nonetheless. Like the difference between seeing breasts when you’re thirty as opposed to when you were thirteen.”
– Sergio De La Pava

“The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.”
– William Golding

“Everyone praises the endurance of the ascetic, but no one appreciates the stamina of the hedonist. To laugh until the throat burns and smoke a cigar to soothe it, to black out but not pass out, to love without climax, to be immortal in the moment – what stoic has such fortitude?”
– Bauvard

“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.”
– Eve Ensler

“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?”
– David Byrne

“You are speaking…as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing… what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.”
– C.S. Lewis

“It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that fact.”
– Bauvard

“As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.”
– Silvia Hartmann

“Being too suspicious of your happiness will inevitably lead you back to a space where there is none. There is an element of mystery to every happiness.”
– Brandon A. Tren

“The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.”
– Thomas Merton

“Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.”
– Tony DiTelizzi

“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”
– Richard von Krafft Ebing

“He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.”
– Richard von Krafft Ebing

“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”
– Alexander Lowen

“I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me – that’s certain – but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza’s, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it”
– Anne Bronte

“Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.”
– Ogwo David Emenike

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