1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

The libido accepts all currencies, and vicarious pleasures have an over-the-counter exchange rate that is considered reliable enough to pass for real. No one ever went bankrupt borrowing someone else's pleasures. We go bankrupt when we want no one.

What pleasures are you living for?

Now that the time that calls me to departdraws near, I think, or will not be too long,like one whom losses make acute and wise,I keep on wondering where I left the waythat leads to a safe haven on the right:and on the one hand I am stungby shame and sorrow making me turn back;and on the other cannot breakthe habit of a pleasure grown so strongthat now it dares to play for time with death.

There is this visceral energy, wild wisdom, living, breathing, and moving through my body that remembers, even though I don’t. It knows all.

none are left to please when none are left to love.

If all pleasure has, preserved within it, earlier pain, then here pain, as pride in bearing it, is raised directly, untransformed, as a stereotype, to pleasure: unlike wine, each glass of whisky, each inhalation of cigar smoke, still recalls the repugnance that it cost the organism to become attuned to such strong stimuli, and this alone is registered as pleasure.

Ted kisses Rachel with tongue and squeezes her ass. In doing so, he discovers that it is possible to enjoy something and yet not care about it in the slightest. He finds this sensation—feeling pleasure, and simultaneously feeling detached from the pleasure—to be, itself, quite pleasurable. He wonders if he has miraculously become a Buddhist, or suffered a psychotic break.

Life is a Big Orgasm of Pain & Pleasure.

When we compare ourselves with others, the pain of being inferior is usually more dominant than the pleasure of being a cut above.