#pleas

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#because #congress #experience #initiated #know

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#hysteria #i #pleasure #terror

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #died #family #general #husband

Money gives me pleasure all the time. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#me #money #pleasure #time

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#eat #enjoy #friends #i #life