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Enjoyment Quotes (page 4)

David Foster Wallace quote: "I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the..."
I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them. David Foster Wallace
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not. C. S. Lewis
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to..."
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. Simone de Beauvoir
People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life. Ludwig von Mises
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body. Anais Nin
The sins that should have brought condemnation on us, God laid on Jesus. God’s love planned an amazing exchange: Jesus endured what we deserved so that we might enjoy what he deserved—eternal life. And the way we come to enjoy this life is by believing in Jesus. That’s what he said: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life' (John 6:47; cf. Luke 8:12). John Piper
Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character. John Stuart Mill
She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Austen quote: "it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by..."
...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely. Jane Austen
As women, do we have the same rights as men to enjoy sex? How many of us would say yes, we do have a right, we have a equal right to enjoy sex, and if our husbands don't satisfy us, then we have a right to seek satisfaction elsewhere. Azar Nafisi
Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one, in the night, when anxiety does not let me sleep, I only know this one. And what is devilish in it seems to me quite clear. It is the vanity and the craving for enjoyment, which is forever whirring around oneself or even around someone else...and enjoying it. The wish that a naive person sometimes has: "I would like to die and watch others crying over me," is what such a writer constantly experiences: he dies (or he does not... Franz Kafka
« Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the “work” was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.» Bruce Sterling
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. Robert Henri
Paulo Coelho quote: "To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain."
To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain. Paulo Coelho
Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workin or a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?' And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars,... Jack Kerouac

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