Quotes About Hedonism

My life screams out and says one thing: 'indulgence.' I am a person who would never deny myself anything.

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

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

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

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

Die zur Zeit angemessenste Geisteshaltung ist ein apokalyptischer Hedonismus: Da wir mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass uns der Himmel auf den Kopf fallen wird, besteht die gesündeste Reaktion darin, das Leben auf der Stelle zu genießen.

Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy . . .They lack an anchor for their real self.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week.

For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of it, we should seek nothing beyond.

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

Now that I have the access and money, I spend all of it on clothes and shoes. I have no other pursuits. I don't drink or smoke.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

Could it be that sweetness is the prototype of all desire?