Pleasure
Quotes - Come live with me and be my Love
“The
pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm
anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”
―
Wilhelm Reich
“A
child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he
cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures
of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different
kinds of pleasure, some of which cannot be enjoyed simultaneously, but we need
help from others in defining them. Whether it be a matter of taste in food or
taste in literature, the adolescent looks for a mentor in whose authority he
can believe. He eats or reads what his mentor recommends and, inevitably, there
are occasions when he has to deceive himself a little; he has to pretend that
he enjoys olives or War and Peace a little more than he actually does. Between
the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who
we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations
which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature
beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity. Few of us can learn this without
making mistakes, without trying to become a little more of a universal man than
we are permitted to be. It is during this period that a writer can most easily
be led astray by another writer or by some ideology. When someone between
twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,'he is
really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural
milieu', because, between twenty and forty, the surest sign that a man has a
genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it. After forty, if we have
not lost our authentic selves altogether, pleasure can again become what it was
when we were children, the proper guide to what we should read.”
―
W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
“if
only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Some
people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would
swear they are talking about their own successes.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“There
is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a
dissatisfaction.”
―
G.I. Gurdjieff
“Imagination
is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us
to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex,
falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life
interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new
possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It
fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our
pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.”
―
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the
Healing of Trauma
“Come
live with me and be my Love,
And
we will all the pleasures prove”
―
Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays and Poems
“Altruism
is for those
who
can't endure their desires.
There's
a world
as
ambiguous as a moan,
a
pleasure moan
our
earnest neighbors
might
think a crime.
It's
where we could live.
I'll
say I love you,
Which
will lead, of course,
to
disappointment,
but
those words unsaid
poison
every next moment.
I
will try to disappoint you
better
than anyone else has.
--Mon
Semblable”
―
Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
“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, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
“She
was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being
virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”
―
Émile Zola, Pot Luck
“I
don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.
I
did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no
pleasure I did not experience.”
―
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“Life
is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every
situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that
purpose could be.”
―
Steve Maraboli
“To
a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a
woman there exists something greater than pleasure―gestures of adoration. A
gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in
a slow dance, the whispered words 'You're beautiful'―these are the tokens of
love that women cherish.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry
for Every Day of the Year
“We
are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast,
and only very little from the condition itself.”
―
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
“Generosity
without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as
pleasure.”
―
Frances Burney, Evelina
“The
most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to
risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
―
Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
“I
didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never
once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females
possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel
pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how
much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)”
―
Gloria Steinem , The Vagina Monologues
“We
are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that
we do not look happy.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
