Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. T...
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the d...
It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place...
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
One pleasure, a thousand pains.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
When I die, I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy; my greatest grief, that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy, that Jesus has done so much for me.
Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires...never make her hold back.” - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)
The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Pleasures steal away the mind.
Eat with pleasure; drink with measure.
Pleasures are transient -- honors immortal.
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
