Quotes About Hedonism

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

Times of difficulty arise because people are lovers of themselves and lovers of money and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of good and lovers of God.

Self-indulging is how we worship the idol of comfort, and orienting our lives on whatever promises to provide it in the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable way is how we bow down. As with any kind of idol, the appeal to immediate gratification is why self-indulgence snares us.

I'm going to drink till when I cut myself whiskey runs out. What's the good of blood when you can have whiskey?

Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.

Our world does not reduce God by distributing his power to other deities. Rather, we reduce God by making him a figurehead. We too often portray him as standing back from a world that runs on its own. We banish him to the hidden corners of our lives while we amble through life, pursuing our own ambitious goals driven by narcissism, hedonism, and materialism and refusing to allow God to bridle our self-sufficiency.

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

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Being happy means caring about no one else and simply enjoying the moment...

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