“The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.” MenWantLooksPleasureHorrorInstinctUglyShrinksFascinationDevilish Author:Sonya Levien
“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsMindChildrenLittlesAblePainHeavenPerfectPleasureWonderEnvironmentCryDangerThis WorldBabyHorrorPureAdvantageRaisesAccidentsHeavenlyWithout PainLittle MindsRearing A Child Author:David Berg
“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksDifferentAgeImaginationPleasureRolesToo MuchWrittenFashionStyleExpressionHorrorClothesEnvyAppropriateJoyous Author:Elizabeth Heyert
“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.” RealFactsFacesUsedOrderPleasureAcceptingViolenceHorrorDirectorsUglySensualMovieSensual Pleasure Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.” GivingImaginationSimplePleasureBeautyDoubtHorrorExtraordinaryNo DoubtProvenExceptionalUglinessSimple ThingsFieryExtraordinary ThingsNastiness Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.” ThinkingWayReasonPhilosophyHandsMightPleasureBrotherColdDevelopmentHorrorConclusionReasoningSoupCherriesGerman Philosophy Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky