Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.

The Summer Prince

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

Sophie's Secret: Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Pleasure

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

I don't get it. Why would you want to endure someone who squeezes the toothpaste the wrong way and deprives you of a simple pleasure every morning?

Sophie Says

But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

Taking the Long Way Home

The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no." His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ear to ear.

Psychic Skin Volume 2

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Pegasus

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

The Palace of Love

When she finally pulled away from him—much to Aley’s stuttering forward reluctance—he wanted only to echo Aley’s words: “Oh! Do it again.

Past Pleasures

...never would I trade for some new shape that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade all other pleasures vanish in my heart.

The Poetry of Petrarch

How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Pot-Bouille

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

The Temporary Wife/A Promise of Spring

I got offended when she laughed, because she was showing pleasure, but she was also showing displeasure—in all the previous moments where she hadn’t laughed.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

The Thirteenth Tale

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Unbound Intelligence: Discover the God Within

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

Villette

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.

The Valley of Secrets

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.

The World According to Bertie

His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.

Waiting for the Flood