Heart Asks Pleasure

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

    O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
    Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    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)

    Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air.... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)