#pleasure

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#me #modern #pleasure #provides #seems

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#dancers #draining #getting #into #mentally

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

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends. ↗

— James Arness

#became #before #being #california #friends

Money gives me pleasure all the time. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#me #money #pleasure #time

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#because #close #close friends #contribute #friends

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more