#plea

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#pleasure #life

So this," she said, "what's happening and what's going to happen, this isn't your fault. You can't control everything and not everything is your responsibility. At Croke Park you said something about how you don't want to drag me around after you so I can die beside you. I wanted to tell you then, but I didn't have the words and I didn't have the time. I'm here because I choose to be. You save my life. I save yours. That's how we work." "Until the end." "Until the end. ↗

— Derek Landy

#life

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#life

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#life

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#life #pleasure #life

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about ↗

— Michael Grant

#pleasure #truth #life

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. ↗

— Tibor Fischer

#life

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. ↗

— Seneca

#how #never #nothing #pleasant #reflect

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures. ↗

— Tony DiTerlizzi

#pleasure #life

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#find #forget #literature #me #pleaded