The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
Orson Scott CardTag: inspirational pain reality joy pleasure memory grief memories past-and-present
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert GreeneTag: goals pleasure selfishness consumption
There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.
Charmian HusseyTag: nature pleasure flowers plants cheerful
I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we're nothing more than friends. The first time I touched you with sexual intention, it was like an electrical current flowing through my fingertips and it paralyzed me. I wanted to make your senses go numb with pleasure. Not only physical pleasure, but desire too, deep inside.
Yonezou NekotaTag: sexuality romance pleasure understanding gay desire secret-love friends-to-lovers
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
Émile ZolaTag: pleasure passionless cold-hearted
I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)
Gloria SteinemTag: men women pleasure body vagina female male body-acceptance clitoris body-appreciation
Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack
Nina Jean SlackTag: words love poetry selfish pleasure poem poets poems beautiful guilty indulge devour
A good woman is a pleasured treasure.
Habeeb AkandeTag: woman women relationships pleasure treasure male-female-relationships good-woman
When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.
EpicurusHere at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.
Junot DíazTag: happiness women pleasure smiling
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