#pleas

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#cry #depressed #feel #good #good movies

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#accept #death #find #go #i

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#pleasure #selfishness #age

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. ↗

— Alex Cox

#finding #new #new ways #pleasure #projects

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#please #protecting #shoot #threat #unarmed

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ↗

— William Cowper

#fatal #laid #pleasure #remorse

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#could #course #i #liked #me