Quotes About Excess

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

Those wedding magazines pollute a woman's brain: designer dresses, thousands of flowers, and so much tulle! It's too much.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

This side of passion was my first perversion. The tendency toward excess veered out of control into bulimia, that state of fear and desire, that violent crashing back and forth between hunger and the abortion of hunger, between taking in and throwing back what is most needed and instinctively desired: food. The bread of life.

What if we have become virtually addicted to the heightened sensory stimulation that composes much of our daily lives and cannot stop ourselves from pursuing it incessantly, as Judith Shulevitz suggests in6 The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time and as technology experts in "persuasion design" principles know very well?

Il problema è che offro più di quanto ho. Sono il più stupido dei draghi. Quello che sputa scintille e si brucia le ali.

It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

How much extra happiness am I acquiring? Why am I wanting so much more than I need? Wouldn't I be happier learning to appreciate what I already have?

temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

The glitz and glamour of the megapolis and modern times had become the golden calves that were being worshipped throughout the planet.

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards.

He gorged himself on sugar and alcohol—it was the quickest way to gain weight, and he liked the feeling of inebriation.

Al??veri? merkezlerinde her ?ey, herhangi bir ?ey istememenin feci kabal??a girece?i hissini yaratmak üzere tasarlan?r.

Gronk dancing topless was ice cream and cookies compared to this.