Heart Asks Pleasure

Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:

    “Nothing could add to the shudder of going into the house, and she seemed so grieved and frightened that my heart was touched, and I was sorry for her that we had ever met.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “... asks what it’s too late to ask:
    “Where is my life? Where is my life?
    What have I done with my life?””
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now. Because it’s in the past; because we have survived.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)