Quotes about Pleasure

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.