#pleasure

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#gives #mind #our #pains #pleasures

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#i #knew #pleasure #read #weird

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#asking #being #criticism #different #different ways

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#book #i #learned #never #old

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#into #kiss #marriage #miracle #pleasure

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#her #literally #past #play #pleasure

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#childhood #childhood dream #children #dream #feel