Pleasure
Quotes - Take your pleasure seriously
“Pleasure,
I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.”
―
T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth
“The
things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries
in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk
filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The
shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the
black-and-white screen.”
―
Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
“The
pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading”
―
Vladimir Nabokov
“Perhaps
in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Take
your pleasure seriously.”
―
Charles Eames
“Only
a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements:
contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be
content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only
for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more
and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that
they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a
fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his
feelings, instead of the other way round”
―
Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession
“Men
seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”
―
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
“What's
more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me
and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help
one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us
pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that
gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction.”
―
Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
“This
appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this
appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“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
“Gratitude
is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.”
―
Raheel Farooq
“You
are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are
luxury and pleasure oriented.”
―
Debasish Mridha
“I
liked the idea of showing a woman having sex because she wanted to be pleased
instead of being desperate to please.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“And
when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced
without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and
died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different
from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. For you
know how many sons your esteemed writers ascribed to Jupiter: Mercury, the
interpreting word and teacher of all; Aesculapius, who, though he was a great
physician, was struck by a thunderbolt, and so ascended to heaven; and Bacchus
too, after he had been torn limb from limb; and Hercules, when he had committed
himself to the flames to escape his toils; and the sons of Leda, and Dioscuri;
and Perseus, son of Danae; and Bellerophon, who, though sprung from mortals,
rose to heaven on the horse Pegasus. For what shall I say of Ariadne, and those
who, like her, have been declared to be set among the stars? And what of the
emperors who die among yourselves, whom you deem worthy of deification, and in whose
behalf you produce some one who swears he has seen the burning Caesar rise to
heaven from the funeral pyre? And what kind of deeds are recorded of each of
these reputed sons of Jupiter, it is needless to tell to those who already
know. This only shall be said, that they are written for the advantage and
encouragement of youthful scholars; for all reckon it an honourable thing to
imitate the gods. But far be such a thought concerning the gods from every
well-conditioned soul, as to believe that Jupiter himself, the governor and
creator of all things, was both a parricide and the son of a parricide, and
that being overcome by the love of base and shameful pleasures, he came in to
Ganymede and those many women whom he had violated and that his sons did like
actions. But, as we said above, wicked devils perpetrated these things. And we
have learned that those only are deified who have lived near to God in holiness
and virtue; and we believe that those who live wickedly and do not repent are
punished in everlasting fire.”
―
Justin Martyr, The First Apology of Justin Martyr, Addressed to the Emperor
Antoninus Pius; Prefaced by Some Account of the Writings and Opinions of Justin
“LADY
BRACKNELL
I
had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for
pleasure now.
ALGERNON
I
hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
