Pleasure Quotes - Page 8

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.