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Pleasurable Quotes (page 4)

Leo Tolstoy quote: "A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the..."
A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Leo Tolstoy
The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. Nelly, I AM Heathcliff--he's always, always in my mind--not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself--but as my own being. Emily Bronte
Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees? my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath? a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff? he's always, always in my mind? not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself? but as my own being? so, don't talk of our separation again? it is impracticable.- Emily Bronte
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Herman Hesse
Oscar Wilde quote: "Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no..."
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. Oscar Wilde
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell
This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of the beast from which they came. Pain! Pain and pleasure - they are for us, only so long as we wriggle in the dust... H. G. Wells
George Bernard Shaw quote: "It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life..."
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. George Bernard Shaw
The peace the world pretends to desire is really no peace at all. To some men, peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others, peace means the freedom to rob brothers without interruption. To still others, it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody, peace simply means the absence of any... Thomas Merton
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit. Dave Grohl
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything. Elizabeth Gaskell
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case. Paramahansa Yogananda
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures..."
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Vladimir Nabokov
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal? less for the pleasure of..."
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal? less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. Emile M. Cioran

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