Quotes of: Greatest-pleasure Keyword

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.

Love

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

Life

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Life

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor E. Frankl

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.

William Bates

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

William Shenstone

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

William Wycherley

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.

Zeeshan Ahmed

And he knew he would not be travelling home. If he had to wear a donkey jacket and wait for fifty years, then he would wait. At last there was a place in the world where he had reason to be, a place that had meaning. For days, without realising it, h...

Journey by Moonlight

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the spl...

Letters to a Young Poet

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrif...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

She felt the glide of his hair as he lowered his head to study the zipper on her skirt. Her imagination supplied other places his hair could touch, and she drew in her breath. He carefully pulled down the zipper, then pulled it back up. After several...

The Pleasure Master

At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner frequented by lorry drivers who have either just unloaded or or are waiting to pick up their cargo. Anyone nursing a disappointment with domestic life...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, h...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain is sometimes used to maintain hierarchies of dominance. But this animal use of pain seems somewhat restrained, at leas...

Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality

Oh, girl! He's got a big one,” the fortune teller exclaimed, her dark eyes briefly flickering up to Violet's face before returning back to the cards spread out in front of her. She paused for a moment as she studied them, her pointer finger tapping...

The Vampire's House of Pleasure: Part One

When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It's too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn't leave us feeling special or above the fray. It doesn't take away our problems, which is the ego's idea of happiness. The ego wants no more difficulti...

What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. S...

Charlie Brooker

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...

Aidan Chambers

Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Dancer from the Dance

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Eragon