#pleasure

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure - gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, 'You're beautiful' - these are the tokens of love that women cherish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #attention #love #lovers #pleasure

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#book #child #cutting #out #pictures

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#bearing #much #pain #pleasure

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. ↗

— Susie Bright

#enormous #experience #finding #get #heard

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#been #carefree #ever #i #life

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#love #matter #pleasure #precision #utmost

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#books #campaigns #countries #endured #experiences

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#beginning #capacity #constantly #decreases #enjoyment

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ↗

— Ovid

#anxiety #goes #pleasure #pure #some

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression