Pleasure
Quotes - I adore simple pleasures
“I'm
in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus,"
I said.
"I
am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his
eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying
myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I
know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable,
and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has
been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll
ever have, and I am in love with you.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The
Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character. Commerce
“The
Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth
without work.
Pleasure
without conscience.
Knowledge
without character.
Commerce
without morality.
Science
without humanity.
Worship
without sacrifice.
Politics
without principle.
From
a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on
March 20, 1925.”
―
Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“If
the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely
challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between
a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it
hard to plan the day.”
―
E.B. White
“To
acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost
all the miseries of life.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, Books and You
“Face
your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“You
must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance
gives you pleasure.”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Sleep
my little baby-oh
Sleep
until you waken
When
you wake you'll see the world
If
I'm not mistaken...
Kiss
a lover
Dance
a measure,
Find
your name
And
buried treasure...
Face
your life
Its
pain,
Its
pleasure,
Leave
no path untaken.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“My
God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
“If
I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd
probably amount to much.
But
I shall stay the way I am,
Because
I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy
Parker, Enough Rope
“So
she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving
pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance,
every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person
who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the
lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or
having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of
being used or misused.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Melancholy
is the happiness of being sad.”
―
Victor Hugo
“...when
pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
―
Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Art
is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It
trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun
colors flowers, so does art color life.”
―
John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
“Kiss
a lover,
Dance
a measure,
Find
your name
And
buried treasure.
Face
your life,
It's
pain,
It's
pleasure,
Leave
no path untaken.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“People
go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them
may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a
life's discomfort.”
―
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“I
adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“Many
of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard
“His
eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop
myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more intimate than the way he’s
touching me, to be looked at like that. I hate that he knows what he’s doing
and I don’t. I hate being vulnerable. I hate that I throw my head back, baring
my throat. I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into
his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I
like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s
ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.”
―
Holly Black, The Wicked King
“Give
them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
―
Alfred Hitchcock
“So
sweet and delicious do I become,
when
I am in bed with a man
who,
I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that
the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so
the knot of love, however tight
it
seemed before, is tied tighter still.”
―
Veronica Franco, Poems and Selected Letters
“I
finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
―
Rita Mae Brown
“Laughter
is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they
tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
―
Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
