It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.
W. Somerset MaughamMots clés humor life death pleasure
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Benjamin FranklinMots clés pleasure
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae BrownMots clés life carpe-diem pleasure enjoy-life hedonism
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage LandorMots clés libraries pleasure explore library
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
Marquis de SadeHe went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)
Charles DickensMots clés happiness pleasure christmas
Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
Julian BarnesMots clés life happiness pleasure memory anticipation
So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
Mots clés poetry sex pleasure erotic courtesan
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés happiness pleasure temporary lasting
Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is no intention here below. Is there any intention anywhere?
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