1,170 Quotes About Pleasure
- Author Giacomo Casanova
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I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.
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- Author Vikram Chandra
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Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.''Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.''When are we happy?''When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.''What is regret?''To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.''What is sorrow?''To long for the past.''What is the highest pleasure?''To hear a good story.
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- Author Atwood H. Townsend
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Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
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- Author Mary Balogh
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He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.
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- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
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- Author John Crowley
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Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex; they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then.
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