Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

Time is a great faith healer

Dean Cavanagh

In the midst of happiness or despair in sorrow or in joy in pleasure or in pain: Do what is right and you will be at peace.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

Conceit

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.

The Complete Poems

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

David Copperfield

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.

The Debt to Pleasure

She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.

Dangerous Pleasure

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

Everyone Burns

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

East of Eden

They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

Eternal Pleasure

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

The Engineer of Human Souls

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

Fifty Shades Darker

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

The Fault in Our Stars

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The Fault in Our Stars

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

A Girl's Adventure

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

The Green Man

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen