Quotes about Pleasure

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see it in your mind's eye and smell it with your mind's nose! But forming these images from the printed page is a skill you have to develop when you're fairly young, I think, or else it's very difficult to read for pleasure later on.

Physical pleasure was such a convincing illusion, and sex, the ultimate charade of safety.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures.

Love ice cream. I let myself have that about once a week. Vanilla.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.