Quotes About Hedonism

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.

The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

And indeed he who pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil, is guilty of impiety.

He also that pursues after pleasures, as that which is truly good and flies from pains, as that which is truly evil: is impious.

I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

His appetite for the stimulus of wine had increased upon him, as I had too well foreseen. It was now something more to him than an accessory to social enjoyment: it was an important source of enjoyment in itself.

There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

Y vi mis dioses verdaderos... los dioses de la mayoría de los hombres: la comida, la bebida y la seguridad en el conformismo. Cenizas.

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat, hot asphalt, and a one-night stand.

algunos preferimos, supongo, los vicios que nos divierten a las virtudes que nos aburren.

Tengo planes más atractivos: mujeres, cigarrillos, restaurantes. Cosas así. De modo que, puestos a ello, es mejor que mueran otros. Entonces

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

My motto is - if it feels good -" he grinned as he held her gaze "- then I do it.