Pleasure Quotes

Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.

~ Stephen King

...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.

~ Amy Tan

Why? What kind of man would pleasure his woman by hurting her.' Angus paced across the path. ''Tis a man's duty, nay, his privilege, to give his woman all the pleasure she can bear. She should be panting and writhing with pleasure.'Emma remained silent, staring at him. Did she not believe him?He walked toward her. 'A real man would take all night if need be to make sure his woman was fully sated. She should be screaming that she canna endure any more.'Emma's eyes widened.'It should be a man's greatest pleasure to see his woman shuddering in the throes of passion.'She took a deep breath and shifted her weight from one foot to another.He paced back and forth. 'Only when she is begging for him should a man see to his own needs. And he should never, ever harm her.' He stopped in front of her 'Am I totally wrong in this?''No,' she squeaked.

~ Kerrelyn Sparks

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

~ Bronnie Ware

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara)

~ Bell Hooks

Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.

~ Benoît Duteurtre

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. Indeed, the Bible does not say we should work one day and rest six or that work and rest should be balanced evenly but directs us to the opposite ratio. Leisure and pleasure are great goods, but we can take only so much of them.

~ Timothy J. Keller

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

~ J.p.v.d. Balsdon

He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. 'May I give ye pleasure?'Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But his voice sounded gruff and his appearance was that of an untamed barbarian. She grabbed handfuls of his hair and pulled his head close to hers. 'Make me scream.'His eyes gleamed hotter. 'Ye will. Many times ere the night is over.

~ Kerrelyn Sparks

It happened on a Valentine night.Chris was an expert panther, a James Bond. Sarah was a lamb, a Virgin Mary. It was a night of mixed feelings and inner conflict. In her flesh she felt walking on liquid gold; but in her mind, heart and soul she could not help but hate herself for partaking of this “forbidden fruit” of pleasure. Not long was the thrill gone that her soul went sinking in the quick sands of condemnation, “did you have to do it?

~ Moffat Machingura

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.

~ Isra

What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.

~ Cassandra Clare

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

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

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 

~ Ruth Harris

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

~ J. K. Galbraith

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

~ Samuel Johnson

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

~ Danish Proverb

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

~ Old Saying

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

~ G. K. Chesterton

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

~ Chinese Saying

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

~ Bertrand Russell

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

~ Roger De Bussy-Rabutin

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

~ W. H. Auden

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

~ Aldous Huxley

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

~ Bertrand Russell

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

~ Henry David Thoreau

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

~ Georges Clémenceau

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

~ Kin Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

~ Henry Chester

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

~ English Proverb

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

~ Cesare Pavese

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

~ Paul Goodman

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

~ Henry David Thoreau

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

~ Oscar Homolka

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

~ Clement Freud

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

~ Charles Kingsley

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

~ Anonymous