Quotes About Hedonism

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

Ištisos kartos užsiima darbais, kuri? neken?ia, tik tod?l, kad nusipirkt?, ko jiems iš tikr?j? nereikia.

Die vagabundierende Physiologie dieser shoppenden, fressenden, herumhurenden Klumpen belebten Fleischs, sie schändet einen.

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut-hosing orgasm. Painting a picture, composing an opera, that's just something you do until you find the next willing piece of ass.

We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like.

When we set up pleasure as the whole meaning of life we insure that in the final analysis life shall inevitably seem meaningless. Pleasure cannot possibly lend meaning to life. For what is pleasure? A condition. The materialist–and hedonism is generally linked up with materialism–would even say pleasure is nothing but a state of the cells of the brain. And for the sake of inducing such a state, is it worth living, experiencing, suffering, and doing deeds?

Meaning orientation had subsided, and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk — on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.

IMMORALITY. The morality of those who are having a better time.

There is something self-defeating in the too conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Plunging to the very depths of sensual pleasure, he gathered more gravel than pearls.

Live fast, eat junk, leave a bloated corpse.

It was Augustine who famously said, "Love God, and do what you will," and coming from a former hedonist like Augustine, you might expect that to be a license for bad behavior. But what he meant, very simply, was this: If you love God completely and totally, if your values are God-values, then the choices you make will tend to be in tune with His will for your life.

Overnight our place was busting its seams with idiotics. Anything went, and every fool thing you might think of under the influence of hashish or a hangover went big. We were awash with pretty women, clowns, and storytellers who couldn't write. We made a million dollars so fast my fingers ached from trying to count.

Alas, what short-sighted improvident creatures we are, all of us; and how often does the evening cup of joy lead to sorrow in the morning!

Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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?

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

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.