Quotes About Excess

Todas las drogas cosméticas, dijo, todos los estabilizadores del ánimo y antidepresivos, solamente tratan los síntomas de los grandes problemas. Todas las adicciones, le contó, no eran más que formas de tratar un mismo problema. Las drogas, el exceso de comida, el alcohol o el sexo, todo era una simple forma de encontrar la paz. De escapar de lo que conocemos. De nuestra educación. Eran nuestro mordisco a la manzana.

We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like.

No matter how many women you bring home, there's never a storage problem.

a hot Krispy Kreme donut stuffed with blood and voided bowels.

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

Two big bottles of this and you wake up in the morning with a pile of vomit in your slippers and six hours pregnant.

The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.

On barstools they ogled the bachelorettes in the club and discussed their chances, recalling near-conquests from previous visits. In the buffet lines they foraged from the heat lamps and steam trays, and impaled and then swirled wasabi around tiny ceramic saucers, tinting soy sauce.

You think that's enough? Do you know how many episode of Jersey Shore you can watch before you want to gouge your own eyes? i do, and it's probably a lot fewer than you guess.

they had more shit on tv than you could believe now.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

We overtrained.

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.

in the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive. He is more than you need, and He is more than pleasure, and if you attend to Him, you will find so much there that you will be derailed completely.

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive. He is more than you need, and He is more than pleasure, and if you attend to Him, you will find so much there that you will be derailed completely. And you will think your heart might break. And then, per Louis de Blois, He will withdraw and you will be miserable and sick until He returns.

He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book.

Progesterone is not a minimalist hormone. It leans toward excess, toward velvet, toward a thickening of the blood. Under its spell, the womb's endometrial mat goes from a thin brown covering to a thick crimson pile, a wild, expensive carpet, bedding fit for a king. No amount of money could buy a mattress with the thickness, the precision, the pure comfort that progesterone produces; here is where you started your first perfect sleep. Shhh.

He was covered in syrup, doughnut crumbs, and bacon grease.

it is essential to know that they enter the mind through excessive abuse of the pleasures of the material world

Words are like sweets; too many of them make you sick.

They may have three or four cars instead of one or two, and they may have two television sets instead of one,

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.