Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.
Voila, pleasurable indeed. Oh yeah, satisfy my need. Alright, how I long to be. My soul on fire and my spirit free.
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.
Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives.
Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.