Quotes About Hedonism

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Happiness is egotistical.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

I want a new liver to replace my heart.""Um, why?""Because then I could drink more and care less.

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.

What is it about food that's bad for you that makes you feel so good?" I asked. "And why can't I feel this way about lettuce?

the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the epicurean's pleasure in them.

He was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.

In return for ten minutes of pleasure they design the rest of the day.

In those palaces, sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind.

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

"Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

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.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.