Quotes About Hedonism

Some will buy things, which they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for. In the end however, they find their financial assets and, even more so, their corporeal capacity, completely undermined. ( "Keeping up with the Joneses" )

What is't to be adorn'd and shine with Gold, Drest like a God, but never know the Pleasure?

Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?

Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters—we're cosmically alone.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

too much, because it feels so good

I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble. A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Paradoxically, it is the so-called pleasure-chasers—the men who seemingly live for nothing but the sensation of the moment, who are concerned only with having a good time—who are psychologically incapable of enjoying pleasure as an end in itself. The neurotic pleasure-chaser imagines that, by going through the motions of celebration, he will be able to make himself feel that he has something to celebrate.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life,' he said. 'So let's get wasted all of the time, and have the time of our life.

The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel