Quotes About Hedonism

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

In the earning of things you have lost the ability to enjoy them.

Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones.

it's like a mini Bourbon Street with less culture and more disgusting hookers.

Il sonno diurno è come il peccato della carne: più se ne è avuto più se ne vorrebbe, eppure ci si sente infelici, sazi e insaziati allo stesso tempo.

economy spoils pleasure

De fato, o marketing político corresponde à instalação das sociedades democráticas na era do consumo moda: foram os valores inerentes à sua ordem, o hedonismo, o lazer, o jogo, a personalidade, o psicologismo, a cordialidade, a simplicidade, o humor, que impulsionaram a reestruturação das declarações políticas.

We consume to avoid living.

The exercise of liberty requires moral and intellectual virtues that oppose those habits fostered by the reigning economic, social, and cultural elites. The virtue most essential to liberty is self-control, yet the ruling principle behind egalitarianism, Hollywood-style hedonism, and unbridled materialism is the notion that one's appetites for pleasure and possessions should brook no limits.

Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life!

Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women. I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.