Pleasure Quotes - Page 31

• I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

  Frances Mayes

  Discovery, Fields, Language

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• To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

  Amy Bloom

  Fall, Knowing, Forever

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• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  Laura Riding

  Memories, Giving, Mind

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• Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

  Robert Motherwell

  Feelings, Doe, Painting

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV.

  Ross Mathews

  Reruns, Pants, Tvs

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Without hope of reward
  Provide help to others.
  Bear suffering alone,
  And share your pleasures with beggars.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Suffering, Rewards, Bears

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• Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Venice, Cities, Joy

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• A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Book, Voice, Fiction

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• The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Essence, Empowering

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• The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

  Sam Storms

  Believe, Focus, Effort

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• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Occupation

  Diary, 8 Mar. 1941.Woolf committed suicide on 28 Mar. 1941.

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• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  Georges Rouault

  Spiritual, Smell, Giving

  "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

  Steven Strogatz

  Eye, World, Patterns

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• One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

  Kin Hubbard

  Cute, Sarcastic, Morning

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• Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Self, Confusion

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• What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

  Blaise Pascal

  Blood, Hands, Flesh

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

  Jacob Epstein

  Artist, Order, Portraits

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

  D. H. Lawrence

  Boys, Somewhere Else, Ideas

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• An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Bookstores, Innocent, Visiting

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• There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, World, Wells

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Intellectual, Poverty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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