Pleasure Source Quotes

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.