Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
