1,170 Quotes About Pleasure

Something this good was worth dying for.

Do not be fooled by what is temporary.

Insomniacs exaggerate the pleasures of sleep.

Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an underworld so endless it seems possible to stay there forever. What he’s said to Robert isn’t a lie – he is afraid he wouldn’t be able to take it – but he’s also afraid he would, that his greed would have no edges and no end.

He would have gone days without food or water just to be inside her again. To possess something so wonderful and forbidden. Any torture, any punishment, any sacrifice would have been worth the cost of pleasuring them both until they couldn’t move.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.

After the third day of an orgy, even Bacchus has had enough.

Everything which formerly distressed me is now a delicious pleasure.

Pain and pleasure are the yin and yang of love.