Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    The desert is not only around the corner,
    The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
    The desert is in the heart of your brother.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    ... 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)

    For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)