Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Our religion ... is itself profoundly sad—a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man’s own language—so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And wouldn’t it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)