#pleasure

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#been #before #believe #best #chilly

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#around #blood #come #desert #distrust

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. ↗

— Alan Watts

#cannot #more #pain #pleasure #sensitive

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#any #day #dentist #fuss #go

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. ↗

— Cornel West

#obsessed #pleasure #power #property #selling

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#alive #breeze #crisp #drunk #drunken

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#growth #happiness #happy #neither #nor

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. ↗

— Sei Shōnagon

#life #literature #pleasure #life